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Sen. Tom Cotton said Monday he's glad to see President Joe Biden "singing a different tune" on China, but still, he thinks it's not enough for Biden to rebuke former President Donald Trump on his policies without outlining plans of his own and that the new president must also recognize China as a threat. "In the campaign, he said that Chinese leadership weren't bad folks and that they weren’t our competitors," the Arkansas Republican said on Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "Of course, they are our most dangerous and long-term strategic competitor." Biden last week said China is the United...

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III, 1951-2021, R.I.P. He promised us "I won't stop until everyone agrees with me.” Rush tried harder than any politician to keep his promise. For four years on a local show in Sacramento, then for over 32 years on his syndicated national radio program, he redefined the medium to blend news, philosophy, education and entertainment in a brand new way, serving as the inspiration and ally of generations of patriotic Americans. Struggling to find his place in the world in his youth, he left college to work as a music station disk jockey for a few years,...

“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) leadership PAC, the Bluegrass Committee, made a contribution to House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY), the highest-ranking House Republican who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump.”

A controversial new public service announcement from Cartoon Network encourages children to "see color" when they look at other kids. Only by looking through the lens of color, it says, can a person learn to be anti-racist. "It's important to see people in all their beautiful colors. When you see color and the unique experiences that come from it, you can recognize the role racism plays in our culture and appreciate everyone and their diversity," reads the description of the ad written by the creator of "Steven Universe."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJkVgGYm4xo&feature=emb_title In the ad, a white and black character, along with a purple...

Heated exchange sparked by [lone conservative commisioner Gale's]name being left off employee recognition NORRISTOWN — What began as the airing of a grievance led to the eruption of a verbal powder keg between Montgomery County commissioners on Thursday. Commissioners Joe Gale and Ken Lawrence Jr. traded jabs over contentious interactions between the board's two Democrats and the lone Republican. “The two of you are obsessed with being vindictive towards me,” Gale said, referencing Lawrence and Montgomery County Commissioners’ Chairwoman Valerie Arkoosh. “In reality, your spiteful, political stunts and abuse of power have hurt others.” “Commissioner Gale, you said that we’re...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – A woman in Southeast Alaska said she never imagined having an issue with bears while winter camping near Haines last weekend, until one bit her on her bottom. Shannon Stevens was camping with her brother and his girlfriend at a yurt near Chilkat Lake on Saturday, when she left to use the outhouse after dinner. “I went to the outhouse, sat on the toilet and immediately something bit me,” she said. “Honestly … it didn’t occur to me it would be a bear. I didn’t know what it was. I felt the pain and screamed.” Shannon...

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has called for the United States to ''decouple'' from China, saying it should revoke its permanent normal trade relations status and take the same strategy as it has against the Soviet Union for what his report calls the ''breakup or the gradual mellowing'' of the ''Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) power.'' Cotton announced his push during a speech at the Reagan Institute in Chicago on Thursday while unveiling a report compiled by him and his office, ''Beat China: Targeted Decoupling and the Economic Long War.'' ''The will and need to confront Communist China is growing,'' he said....

As the climate crisis worsens, Andrés Manuel López Obrador plans to buy nearly 2m tons of thermal coal from small producers “We’re reactivating the industry,” said Arturo Rivera Wong, who had just taken on 40 more workers at the mine he owns in the scrublands of the border state of Coahuila. “Four furnaces at the big thermoelectric plant are going to be reactivated,” he explained. “This is going to kickstart coal sales.” Mexico is moving in the opposite direction. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, popularly known as Amlo, has unveiled plans to buy nearly 2m tons of thermal coal from...

GLENN MEDEIROS was a global star at 17 with debut hit Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You. In a new interview, he says he saw fellow singers trading sex for hit songs and being "pimped out" for drugs by the Mafia. But what happened to the 1980s pop icon? Look at him now as a high school headmaster.When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You...

Executives at McDonald's may not be lovin' it if they don't get their full McBonuses in accordance with new company policy. The fast-food company announced on Thursday it would be reducing the bonuses of top brass if they fail to staff more minorities in senior leadership roles. "We’re implementing policies that hold our leaders directly accountable for making tangible progress on our [diversity, equity, and inclusion] goals," McDonald’s Corp. said in a press release titled "Allyship through Accountability." McDonald's, pushing to achieve "gender parity" by 2030, said it "expects to increase representation of historically underrepresented groups in leadership roles (Senior...

Its designers and leaders hope it will be used by Jewish, Christian and Muslim members as a place to pray, worship, gather and, perhaps above all, host a dialogue among their respective religions and with society at large.An artistic rendering of the House of One design in Berlin. Design by Kuehn Malvezzi, photo by Ulruich Schwarz, courtesy House of One Three religions. One building. The concept could be profoundly simple or particularly complex. For Berlin’s “House of One,” it’s turning out to be a bit of both. Dubbed “the world’s first churmosqagogue” by one Reddit user, the House of One...

Lehigh University is cracking down on students and groups throwing parties amid a coronavirus outbreak on its South Bethlehem campus. There are 379 active coronavirus cases among Lehigh students and more than 600 in quarantine. The university’s test positivity rate jumped to 8% last week, prompting Lehigh to urge student caution last Friday. Yet, some students did not heed that message. At least three Greek organizations are facing student conduct charges for parties thrown in the last week, according to the university’s student affairs website. Chi Phi is accused of hosting a “COVID party” on Feb. 11 that was attended...

The first group of asylum-seekers in the Migrant Protection Protocols program to be allowed into the U.S. arrived via the San Ysidro Port of Entry Friday morning in San Ysidro, Calif. Border Report captured the moment a charter bus carrying a group of about 25-30 migrants emerged from the port of entry. Some of the migrants waved as the bus approached a group of reporters gathered on the U.S. side. The rollback of the MPP program will be phased out to other ports of entry along the Southwest border. On Monday, asylum-seekers in Matamoros, Mexico will be allowed into Brownsville,...

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin also won't talk 'with people who refuse to write on a piece of paper that the law of the Republic is superior to the law of God.'February 18, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) -- France’s interior minister sparked anger among the growing evangelical communities in the country earlier this month when he claimed on a popular news show that “Evangelicals are a very important problem” on par with radical Islam. Gérald Darmanin, who is in charge of policing and internal security but also of “worship” and relations with faith communities, added that the problem is “obviously not of the...

The working group, formed in November, met twice and produced two recommendations by the end of the year 2020.WASHINGTON — A source at the U.S. bishops’ conference (USCCB) has disputed the notion that a special working group formed to deal with new President Joe Biden was terminated prematurely this week. Reports earlier this week at the National Catholic Reporter indicated that the USCCB’s working group on dealing with new President Joe Biden was “disbanded,” just three months after it was formed in November after the presidential election. According to a USCCB source with knowledge of the situation, however, it is...

Somebody needs to tell Gov. Andrew Cuomo that when you are in a hole, it’s time to stop digging. Once again at his Emmy Award-winning press conference on Friday, Cuomo deflected and denied when faced with his mishandling of nursing homes and state data. He continued to blame something he calls a “void” in information. Friday there was even a picture of the void in his PowerPoint presentation. It looked like a black hole in space, and Cuomo looked like a shaken shell of a governor. It’s almost sad how the mighty have fallen. The only void at work here...

*Kale is celebrated as a superfood and has been a trendy must-have for a number of years *But there is a new contender: broccolini, a Chinese broccoli hybrid, is all the rage Is broccolini the new kale? Produce and ingredients are not immune to the whims of fashion. Foods also go in and out of style, changing every few years. If you think vegetables are evergreens – pun intended – you’d be wrong. For a time, kale was the must-eat food that was on every shopping list. It was no longer solely for vegan yogis and detoxing tai tais –...

The City of Sydney ordered the removal of an image of St Mary's Cathedral from advertising of an LGBT concert after Sydney's Catholic Archbishop described it as "frustrating and upsetting". Events group Heaps Gay will stage a "Live and Queer" variety show on Saturday night in the St Mary's Cathedral forecourt as part of an outdoor performance series being run by the council. In a Facebook post yesterday, Archbishop Anthony Fisher wrote that because Cathedral Square was council land, "the decision about the content of the concert and its advertising is unfortunately not ours to make". "We have asked City...

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After debunking misinformation about COVID-19 and the 2020 presidential election results, Facebook will now be the arbiter of truth about climate change. The social network will begin flagging and debunking climate change myths.Facebook released a statement Thursday stating that the social media platform will "add informational labels to some posts on climate," and direct users to the Facebook Climate Science Information Center, a resource that provides "science-based news, approachable information and actionable resources from the world's leading climate change organizations." Previously, Facebook rolled out its Voting Information Center in August and the Coronavirus Information Center in March to combat news...