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Governor Ron DeSantis has directed flags to be flown at half staff Wednesday to honor Rush Limbaugh at three buildings in Palm Beach, West Palm and Tallahassee. The order says the flags of the United States and the State of Florida will be flown at half-staff at the Palm Beach County Courthouse in West Palm Beach, the City Hall of Palm Beach and the State Capitol in Tallahassee... Palm Beach County Commissioner Melissa McKinlay tweeted on Tuesday that the courthouse flag would not be lowered....

VIDEOWe sent people to Vegas and Detroit to match voter registrations to actual addresses. You’ll be SHOCKED to find out how many were fraudulent. We also recap the Merrick Garland hearings from Monday. And which congresspeople are looking to have conservative media taken off the air?

Video Famed supermodel Chrissy Teigen was given an extra special honour last month after she got a follow back on Twitter by US President Joe Biden. While she may have been excited initially, it looks like the fashion icon soon started regretting her big feat as she became conscious of what she posted following the big achievement. Taking to her official Twitter on Tuesday, Teigen wrote: “I have tweeted a handful of times since my treasured @POTUS following. “In order for me to flourish as me, I must ask you to please lord unfollow me. I love you!!! It’s not...

Some residents of Marin County are misusing access codes intended for people living in Black and Latino communities to book vaccine appointments at the Oakland Coliseum through the state's vaccine scheduling system My Turn, SFGATE has learned. The codes are part of a California program to remedy inequities in vaccine distribution and provided to community organizations to distribute to vulnerable communities for vaccine appointments. Residents of other Bay Area counties could also be misusing these codes, but the instances SFGATE learned of were specifically in Marin. "We have set aside a number of vaccines a day for local community organizations...

The seeds of sound-money destruction were sown at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, which established that US dollars could be held as central bank reserves and were redeemable for gold by the US Treasury at thirty-five dollars an ounce. This was the so-called gold exchange standard, but only foreign central banks and some multinational organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), enjoyed this right of redemption. The system depended upon the solemn promise by the US that it would refrain from issuing unbacked dollars. The watershed event that ushered in a new malignant, pure fiat money era occurred on...

The issue of reparations to Black Americans as payment for damage done as a result of years of legal slavery and subsequent discrimination is back on the table. The House Judiciary Committee just held hearings on H.R. 40, which would establish a commission to look into ways in which African Americans could be compensated, including possible payments of trillions of dollars to individuals. The commission would examine the role of government in supporting the institution of slavery, "discrimination in the public and private sectors against freed African slaves and their descendants" and "lingering negative effects of the institution of slavery...

University of Washington students pushing for the removal of the campus' George Washington statue is one of many instances of college students targeting the United States' founding father, Campus Reform correspondent Justin Brascher said on Tuesday. "This is just another further example of how we as a society cannot seem to separate the good that somebody has done from the evil. This particular petition was brought forth by one of the student unions on campus and has actually been adopted by the school newspaper," Brascher told "Fox & Friends." Brascher said that the school newspaper "is calling for the removal...

The coronavirus has advanced science to the point where previously unimaginable weapons can now be made and refined. Members of the medical and pharmaceutical field are thrilled. Massive government responses to coronavirus have produced massive amounts of scientific data, which genomicists, systems biologists and researchers in artificial intelligence and other fields have taken advantage of. Some say they are a step closer to curing other highly infectious diseases like hiv. Vaccines, although still of largely unknown side effects, were produced at “warp speed.” But in addition to the medical unknowns, history shows that major scientific advancements have never come without...

CNN host Brian Stelter asked a big question on his Sunday show. "What's the future of fact-checking now that Trump is out of office?" He proclaimed it was "fraught with complexity, and allegations of bias and shouts of false equivalence." This is not complex. In 2016, a Rasmussen poll found that only 29 percent of the public trusted the media's "fact-checking" of presidential candidates. There's not just "allegations" of bias but easy and daily confirmation of bias. Stelter tried to insist -- on behalf of his network -- that the fact-checking focus is now on President Joe Biden. CNN fact-checker...

The same folks to bring you "Abrahamism"—the idea that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are intricately connected—have narrowed their sights on promoting Mary, the mother of Christ, as "a Jewish, Christian and Muslim woman," in the words of Catholic priest Fr. Gian Matteo of the Pontifical International Marian Academy. In a ten-week webinar series titled "Mary, a model for faith and life for Christianity and Islam," the academy will seek to present Mary as a bridge between the two religions. This is easier said than done — at least for those still interested in facts. For starters, the claim that Mary...

A New York man died and his brother was injured on Sunday when a small explosive device meant to be used as part of a gender reveal party malfunctioned and exploded. In a statement, New York State Police said they responded to reports of an explosion in Liberty, N.Y., and found that 28-year-old Christopher Pekny and his brother Michael Pekny, 27, had been building the device at the time of the accident.

A sheep had to have more than 75 pounds of wool cut off after running wild without being shorn for years. The animal, named Baarack by rescuers, was spotted wandering in bushland in Victoria, Australia. His matted fleece — grown over at least five years — was weighing him down, blocking his vision and threatening his chances of survival. But Edgar’s Mission, in Lancefield, took the stoic animal in and gave him a much-needed makeover.

Today's environmental activists are so hostile to capitalism that they end up killing animals they want to protect. Like the African rhinoceros. Poachers kill them to get their horns, which can sell for as much as $300,000. Poachers mostly sell in China and Vietnam, to people who carve them into ornaments or sell them as aphrodisiacs. By the way: The aphrodisiacs don't work. When I started Stossel TV, my first video covered one man's attempt to reduce rhino poaching by flooding the market with fake horns. Matthew Markus argued that his 3D printed rhino horn would reduce demand for real...

Historians still quibble about what event marked the end of the Roman Empire. Some future historians might choose Jan. 16, 2021 as the fatal moment for the American Empire. That’s when the People’s Bank of China and SWIFT, the global system for international monetary transfers, set up a joint venture to promote the use of China’s digital currency in cross-border payments. It’s early days, but the joint venture could denote the end of the dollar’s role as the dominant medium of international exchange, and, more importantly, the end of more than $20 trillion of cheap loans to the United States...

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The owners of a renowned British beauty spot that was ravaged by litter and vandalism last summer have urged the government to educate 'culturally diverse' tourists how to behave in the countryside. The Lulworth Estate, which owns Durdle Door in Dorset, has complained that huge crowds that headed for Britain's coasts during the easing of the first lockdown left behind an unprecedented trail of destruction. They claim the huge spike in day trippers seen at Durdle Door in May led to 'environmental degradation that has never been experienced' before on the 12,000-acre site on Britain's south coast.

A polyamorous throuple who appeared in a 2020 episode of HGTV's House Hunters is reflecting on how their very public coming out affected their lives. In February of last year, Brian, 47, Lori, 42, and Angelica 'Geli,' 28, became the first throuple ever to be featured on HGTV when they appeared in the episode 'Three's Not a Crowd in Colorado Springs,' wherein they search for their dream home in Colorado. The throuple, who are raising two children together, now tell GQ that apart from the usual internet trolls, most people have been kind and accepting of their unconventional relationship —...

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A public school system in New York has introduced a new curriculum to teach that 'all white people play a part in perpetuating systemic racism', and show kindergarten classes videos of black children shot and killed by police, instructing them about the dangers of police brutality. Buffalo's schools are expected to follow lesson plans devised by Fatima Morrell, the associate superintendent for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Initiatives. Morrell's lesson plans, obtained by City Journal, teach pupils and their teachers how to be, in her words, more 'woke.'

Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has revealed its finances for the first time, noting that the group raked in $90million in donations last year. The nonprofit has shared its financial snapshot exclusively with The Associated Press amid accusations from local chapters that they are not being given any of the money. But the fight is far from over for the foundation, widely seen as a steward of the Black Lives Matter movement, with only one BLM group in Denver having signed a multi-year agreement with the national association to receive funds.