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ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - The St. Paul Police Department says it is increasing patrols around schools, businesses and neighborhoods where Asian community members gather after a series of attacks in Atlanta that left eight people dead, most of whom were of Asian descent. A 21-year-old white man is accused of shooting and killing eight people at three different massage parlors in the Atlanta area Tuesday night, the Associated Press reported. Six of the victims were identified as Asian and seven were women. Attacks on Asian Americans have increased over the last year, coinciding with the spread of COVID-19...

“They came here as kids,” Lindsey Graham said of many illegal aliens. “If you told them to go back to their country, they don’t know where you’re talking about. You’ve had people who have lived here for decades that have worked, hard assimilated into the country, and there’s a place for them under our terms.” Graham’s plan is called the Dignity Proposal.

AOC's calling a robot police dog racist greatly amused me. NYPD dispatched the dog to patrol high-crime areas, which happen to be black and Hispanic. Hey, if you don't want robot police dogs in your neighborhood, stop crime. Today I was amused by the New York Times article, "Who Is Making Sure the A.I. Machines Aren’t Racist?" The problem, according to the Times, is too many white men are involved in the development of artificial intelligence machines. The assumptions are 1. that the white men are biased and 2. they will transfer their biases onto the robots they create. I...

Russia on Wednesday recalled its ambassador to the United States, coinciding with comments made by President Joe Biden about Russian President Vladimir Putin saying he “will pay a price” and would face punitive actions in the future.

WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service announced today that the federal income tax filing due date for individuals for the 2020 tax year will be automatically extended from April 15, 2021, to May 17, 2021. The IRS will be providing formal guidance in the coming days. "This continues to be a tough time for many people, and the IRS wants to continue to do everything possible to help taxpayers navigate the unusual circumstances related to the pandemic, while also working on important tax administration responsibilities," said IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig. "Even with the new deadline, we urge...

Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has hit out at those who have previously criticized his no-restriction approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, defiantly telling them: 'Florida got it right'. The state hasn't had any statewide restrictions for at least six months after DeSantis allowed businesses, including bars and restaurants, to open at full capacity. He also prohibited municipalities from fining people who refuse to wear masks. His approach was criticized at the time by some health experts and the governors of Democratic states, such as California and New York, who had enforced stricter lockdown measures on their residents. 'Everyone told me...

Democracy is in retreat in the world as tyrannical regimes accumulate more economic prowess than free countries, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab warned on Wednesday. In a speech at the Aspen Security Conference, Raab said that the combined GDP of autocratic regimes is expected to exceed that of the world’s democracies within this decade. “Just take a second to think about what that means,” he said. “Tyranny is richer than freedom. And that matters to us here at home because we know stable, freedom-respecting, democracies are much less likely to go to war, to house terrorists, or to trigger large-scale...

Rasmussen Reports released a new poll on Wednesday showing that 75 percent of Americans support voter ID laws, including 60 percent of Democrats and 89 percent of Republicans. The poll found that three out of four likely American voters believe a photo ID should be required—such as a driver’s license—before being allowed to vote. A majority of unaffiliated voters, 77 percent, also voiced support for voter ID requirements.

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The Hong Kong government began vaccinating the public with the Chinese domestically-manufactured Sinovac vaccine for free on Feb. 26, and less than three weeks later there have been seven deaths. As of March 15, a cumulative total of 166,000 Hong Kong people had received the China-made Sinovac vaccine, also known as the “CoronaVac vaccine.” China, which has been giving vaccines produced domestically since last year and at a much larger scale than Hong Kong, has so far released little data on adverse reactions, raising questions about a lack of transparency and the safety of the Chinese vaccines. Li Bin, deputy...

Babcock explained the censure resolution directed Alaska Republicans to do everything in their power to ensure Murkowski is not re-elected. “It went further than censure, which was strong,” Babcock said. “But it also directed the party officials to recruit an opponent in the election and to the extent legally permissible, prevent Lisa Murkowski from running as a Republican in any election.” The resolution states: Resolved that under Alaska Republican Party Rules, Article 1, Section 4 (f) 4, the Party hereby will recruit a Republican primary challenger to oppose and prohibit Senator Murkowski from being a candidate in any Republican primary...

Daily Beast and Radar Online posted then soon deleted a story claiming that longtime Bill Clinton affiliate Doug Band spoke with prosecutors for the Southern District of New York about Jeffrey Epstein’s “Pedophile Island.” National File reached out to the organizations for an explanation, but received no response. p>Daily Beast and Radar Online wrote stories that claimed that Doug Band had provided evidence that could implicate his old boss, former President Bill Clinton, in the probe against international sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Immediately after the stories were published, they were quickly removed from both websites with no...

European judges have ordered France to outlaw the hunting of songbirds using glue sticks, a practice described by campaigners as barbaric and a threat to endangered species. French hunters argued the method was traditional and justified exemption from an EU ban introduced in 1979. Until recently, the French government had successfully sought an opt-out that allowed glue hunting in five departments in south-east France on the grounds that it was “controlled, selective and in limited quantities”. On Wednesday, the European court of justice ruled the practice was not selective and contravened EU rules. The ECJ called on France to ban...

Ainge gained national attention last year when he clashed with fellow commissioner, Bill Lee, over a potential mask mandate. More than 150 angry protesters showed up at the meeting. Ainge motioned to adjourn the meeting before it began because there were too many unmasked people in the meeting room. A Republican critic of former President Donald Trump, Ainge is seen as the most moderate member of the three-person commission with Lee and Tom Sakievich occupying the right wing. Those more conservative politicians now control the agenda and direction of the commission since Sakievich replaced the more moderate Nathan Ivie in...

A sheriff’s deputy in Georgia who has been a main conduit for information about the deadly rampage at three Atlanta-area massage businesses faced criticism on Wednesday for saying that Tuesday “was a really bad day” for the suspect, and for an anti-Asian Facebook post that he made last year. At a news conference, the deputy, Captain Jay Baker, the spokesman for the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, discussed the frame of mind of the man charged with eight counts of murder in Tuesday’s shootings. He said that the suspect, Robert Aaron Long, 21, of Woodstock, Ga., had understood the gravity of...

Quivering with life, the developing mice moved ever-so-slightly in their vials. Just a few days since they were fertilized, the rodent embryos were minuscule—smaller than an Aspirin tablet—but their existence a is monumental feat: they developed in an artificial uterus, a first in early mammalian science and a big step in improving scientists’ understanding of embryonic development. The research, published today in the journal Nature, describes how the scientists took new embryos and developed them over the course of six days, about a third of the total mouse gestation period, outside of a rodent uterus. “If you give an embryo...

The United States Military Academy at West Point hosted the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party’s top propaganda effort that seeks to “influence foreign governments and other actors to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies” as a speaker, The National Pulse can reveal.The United States Military Academy (USMA) has also partnered with state-run Chinese universities – including institutions accused of doubling as espionage and cyberattack training grounds and Xi Jinping’s alma mater – on exchange programs.What’s more, West Point leadership has visited the China-based schools to call for increased collaboration, including a former superintendent “inviting national...

Conservative political commentator Candace Owens said she is “100%” suing rapper Cardi B after she shared "wild lies" concerning Owens’s family. ...The feud began after Owens joined Fox News’s Tucker Carlson on Monday evening to discuss the rapper’s controversial performance of the raunchy song “WAP.”... ...“Just @ me next time, directly,” Owens told Cardi B in response to a tweet concerning her Fox News interview. “You are a cancer cell to culture. Young black girls are having their minds poisoned by what you are trying to package and sell to them as ’empowerment’. I’m one of the few that has...

May I give you a word I believe is from the mind of Christ through the Holy Spirit? It has to do with what I believe is one of the greatest needs in the church today. Indeed, it is a word every believer ought to hear. This is the word: Growing numbers of Christians are no longer fully satisfied with Christ. He is being dethroned by what the Lord himself called thorns. Jesus defined thorns as the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, the lusts of other things entering into the heart. Christ said these are the thorns...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Canine Command Army Cpl. Dustin Borchardt gives military working dog Pearl a command during a canine cross-training event in Kosovo. Army Staff Sgt. Tawny Schmit Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. Eye Exam Army Capt. Kelly McCormick conducts an eye exam on a military working dog in Miesau, Germany, Doggy Dip A Marine participates in helocasting and amphibious familiarization training exercises to prepare a multi-purpose canine for future operations at...