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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Interior Department will launch its review of the federal oil and gas leasing program on March 25, a source familiar with the matter said, a key step that will determine whether the Biden administration will permanently halt new leases on federal land and water. The review will kick off with a public forum on oil and gas leasing on federal land and water, with panelists representing industry, environmental conservation and justice groups, labor and others, and commence an online comment period, the source said. This input would inform an interim report on the future of the...

Something is happening and you don't know what it is. Do you, Mr. Jones?

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro reminded MSNBC Morning Joe’s Economic Analyst Steve Rattner how the American tax system works, and it was glorious. Rattner took to Twitter to prop up President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pork-laced stimulus package. Rattner tweeted, “The top 20% of households reaped 65% of benefit from Trump’s tax cuts. The bottom 20% got 1%.” Pivoting off, Rattner fawned how Biden’s “American Rescue Plan gives aid to those who actually need it.” He even included a chart to illustrate his point. Not so fast. Shapiro had another chart, which completely blew up Rattner’s narrative.

WNCN) — The former CEO and founder of pizza chain Papa John’s says he has been working on not using racist language for the past 20 months. John Schnatter, the Papa John’s founder who in 2018 stepped down for using the N-word during a conference call said in an interview with One America News Network that he is “not a racist” and that the pizza chain’s board has painted him in that manner.

Following the rise in popularity of the Detroit-style pizza pie, Pizza Hut released its own version of the square-shaped midwestern classic back in January. Promising a thick, caramelized crust and cheese that stretches all the way to the edges in all directions, it was supposed to be a slam dunk launch for the chain that no one can out-pizza. Unfortunately, based on a mostly negative response to the pie on social media and in some food publications, it sounds like Pizza Hut may have inadvertently created the most disliked pizza in the country (at the moment…) instead. You'd think that...

For a stark contrast to the silly fawning by much of the U.S. media over the Sunday night Oprah Winfrey interview starring Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, look no further than Good Morning Britain host (and former CNN host) Piers Morgan. Morgan penned an acidulous takedown for the U.K. Daily Mail that even puts fury in the headline: "Meghan and Harry's nauseating two-hour Oprah whine-athon was a disgraceful diatribe of cynical race-baiting propaganda designed to damage the Queen as her husband lies in hospital - and destroy the Monarchy."

THIRD WEEK OF LENT MATTHEW 18:21–35 Friends, today’s Gospel gives us the parable of the unforgiving servant, which reveals what is at the root of our inability to forgive. In the deepest sense, we don’t belong to ourselves. Everything we have and all that we are comes from God. We are meant, with all of our gifts, to serve God’s purposes. Our very existence comes from God, but so does the forgiveness of our sins. Through no merit of ours, Christ has died for our sins and offered us the divine mercy. The upshot is this: there is nothing particularly...

Everything is a risk. A year ago, this was our last normal weekend and we didn't even know it. Now, we're deep into a pandemic, with ever-rising Covid-19-related deaths, a new strain on the loose and news of people still experiencing symptoms months after testing positive. But as more people get vaccinated, it finally seems like there's hope on the horizon. Eventually, someday soon, the joys of normal life will return. And yet, we have to ask: Why bother? What's the point of ever leaving home again? Getting dinner, grabbing drinks, working out, seeing a movie. All these comforts of...

Everything is a risk. A year ago, this was our last normal weekend and we didn't even know it. Now, we're deep into a pandemic, with ever-rising Covid-19-related deaths, a new strain on the loose and news of people still experiencing symptoms months after testing positive. But as more people get vaccinated, it finally seems like there's hope on the horizon. Eventually, someday soon, the joys of normal life will return. And yet, we have to ask: Why bother? What's the point of ever leaving home again? Getting dinner, grabbing drinks, working out, seeing a movie. All these comforts of...

Former Vice President Mike Pence plans to next month give his first speech since leaving office, talking to a Christian nonprofit group in South Carolina. An unnamed Pence aide told the Associated Press on Sunday the Indiana Republican will speak at a dinner hosted by the Christian non-profit group the Palmetto Family Council. The paid event is expected to attract 450 to 600 guests April 29 at the Columbian Metropolitan Convention Center in South Carolina. Vice President Mike Pence … is very reflective of the ideas, policies, policies and direction that we at Palmetto Family want to see in South...

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All it takes to be a millionaire in Venezuela is a few American pennies: the beleaguered South American country’s economy is so bad, they’re introducing a million bolivar note worth roughly 53 cents. Venezuelans once again fleeing on foot as troubles mount According to a statement from the country’s central bank, Venezuela will also be printing 200,000 and 500,000 bills along with the 1,000,000 bills. The move comes as hyperinflation has made smaller bills superfluous and worthless – and most citizens are “turning to the U.S. dollar for everyday transactions,” Bloomberg notes, adding “About 66 percent of transactions across the...

More Americans now qualify for yearly scans to detect lung cancer, according to guidelines released Tuesday that may help more Black smokers and women get screened. Lung cancer is the nation’s top cancer killer, causing more than 135,000 deaths each year. Smoking is the chief cause and quitting the best protection. Usually, lung cancer is diagnosed too late for a good chance at survival. But some Americans who are at especially high risk get an annual low-dose CT scan, a type of X-ray, to improve those odds.

Most people plan to continue to wear masks in public, even after receiving their full coronavirus vaccine doses, an Axios/Ipsos survey released this week found. While the U.S. is making strides in vaccine distribution and administration and Americans are increasing their daily activities — going to the grocery store and visiting friends and relatives — and coming out of quarantine, most are not prepared to ditch their face coverings quite yet.

Potential criminal charges against Gretchen Whitmer could result in a lengthy prison sentence against the authoritarian Michigan Governor. New Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido has urged people who lost loved ones to COVID as residents or staff inside nursing homes to present evidence about their death to local police and make a complaint as a wrongful death. Lucido told 7 Action News, “If we find there’s been willful neglect of office if we find there’s been reckless endangerment of a person’s life by bringing them in then we would move forward with charges against the Governor. Of course, we would....

‘Trump supporters are deplorable cult members’ – Hillary Clinton Twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton trashed Trump supporters as cultists and said she just doesn’t understand Donald Trump’s popularity. Hillary Clinton also praised RINO Rep Liz Cheney for supporting the Democrats’ second impeachment of Donald Trump. “It is really troubling to see the Republican Party turn themselves into a cult and basically pledge allegiance, not to the United States of America, but to Donald Trump,” Clinton said in an interview with the Washington Post for International Women’s Day. “Something I do not understand, I cannot accept…” And Hillary Clinton wonders why...

A task force empowered by Nancy Pelosi to review security following the Capitol riot on January 6th has recommended the formation of a “quick reaction force” of federal officers to provide security at that location. The House Speaker announced in January that retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré would lead a team of experts in a security review of the Capitol following the riot. “We suffered a devastating attack on the Capitol that threatened the lives of and traumatized Members of Congress, staff and support workers,” she announced at the time. Fox News reports that Honoré’s task force made...

One of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter is calling for a boycott of the royal family after Meghan Markle’s disturbing allegations of racism, according to a report. Opal Tometi, 36, appeared on TMZ Live to urge people to turn against the monarchy because it doesn’t support black people, the outlet said. In her bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, Markle claimed that at least one senior royal raised “concerns” with Prince Harry over how dark their baby Archie’s skin would be, falsely suggesting it was why he was not made a prince. Harry also said racism was “a large part”...

Major concerns have been raised following a Monday press conference where Joe Biden appeared visibly confused as he struggled to remember basic names. Critics are now sounding the alarm and making growing calls for initiating the 25th Amendment as fears mount over Biden's mental fitness.

In a society where the morality fails or is suppressed, a multitude of governmental laws abound to fill the void of order. Men of morality and conscience govern themselves from within according to eternal laws placed in the heart by God. On the other hand, unconscionable men must be held to account and maintain order by an external rule of laws drafted by the earthly minds in power. Multitudes of ever increasing, ever changing civil laws are evidence of a moral breakdown in society. They are but a futile attempt to create an external conscience, the result at best being,...