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China’s state-controlled media are on the offensive after top Biden administration officials and their Chinese counterparts clashed during their first in-person talks in Alaska.The two-day meeting, covering an array of issues that have strained relations between the two countries, got off to a rocky start on March 18, with Chinese officials reacting angrily to criticisms of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) human rights abuses and economic coercion.Lashing out over what they described as “unwarranted criticisms,” the Chinese diplomats aired bitter denunciation that veered off the usual diplomatic proceedings, extending the allotted two-minute opening remark for each speaker to a diatribe...

Former President Donald Trump on Sunday ripped the Biden administration for turning the migrant crisis at the southern border into a full-fledged “national disaster.” In the statement released Sunday evening, Trump also urged President Biden to complete construction of a border wall, and accused the administration of “causing death and human tragedy.” “In the span of just [a] few weeks, the Biden Administration has turned a national triumph into a national disaster,” Trump said in the statement. “They are in way over their heads and taking on water fast.” Thousands of migrants have traveled to the US-Mexico border since Trump...

Keiynan Lonsdale doesn't care for labels all too much, as admitted in an interview with BIllboard. Now, rather than identifying with any specific pronoun, Lonsdale wants to go by “tree." The Love, Simon star opened up about sexuality and gender pronouns in an intimate Instagram Live session on Tuesday. When a fan asked if Lonsdale was gay, the actor was surprised to keep getting that question. “Now it just depends on the day. Sometimes I’m bisexual, sometimes I’m gay, sometimes I feel straight, sometimes I’m not anything,” Lonsdale said on Instagram Live. “It doesn’t matter. Either way, throughout all of...

Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said that the six-foot social distancing mandate that was employed across much of the United States and the world to deal with the CCP virus pandemic “wasn’t based on clear science.” “This six-foot distancing requirement has probably been the single costliest mitigation tactic that we’ve employed in response to COVID … and it really wasn’t based on clear science. … We should have re-adjudicated this much earlier,” he said in an interview with CNBC. Amid the relaxation of CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus guidelines—including one from the Centers for Disease Control and...

A photojournalist with a major international image subscription service said late last week that every president has allowed him to photograph U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s border operations except for Democrat President Joe Biden. The claims from Getty Images Special Correspondent John Moore comes as a bipartisan group of senators is now demanding that Biden allow the media to see the crisis that has unfolded on Biden’s watch. “I respectfully ask US Customs and Border Protection to stop blocking media access to their border operations. I have photographed CBP under Bush, Obama and Trump but now – zero access is...

(This is not a medical recommendation or study but a proposal that should be examined. Please consult your doctor.)Desperation time is arriving at our door. Our infection rates are reaching all-time highs, hospitals are full, people are unnerved already and the Philippines is far behind other countries in the recovery. Most of us will survive, but many will die unnecessarily; millions of jobs are lost.Real tests are needed, not speeches. Let’s not kid ourselves that survival is proof of resilience and innovativeness; we must improve all performance indicators, including time to adopt the best practical practices. Can we improve this...

[Catholic Caucus] The “Special Year” of St. Joseph is Like the Phoenix. Where It May Be No One KnowsToday, March 19, is the feast of St. Joseph, a saint of whom Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been so fond since his youth that he still keeps at home, in Santa Marta, a statuette of him asleep, “under which,” he has said, “I place little slips with my problems or difficulties, so that he can dream about them at night and tell me what to do” (see photo).It cannot therefore be ruled out that the pope’s bold decision four days ago to...

RUSH EXCERPT: BIDEN: “And so look, I am not saying this is going to be easy, George. I do believe enough republicans of time are going to have.”

Americans have received more than 120 million COVID-19 vaccine doses. Another 2.4 million shots are administered each day. Within the next few months, every adult in the U.S. who wants to be vaccinated will be. But there's a big unanswered question that affects anyone who receives a COVID-19 vaccine: How long will the vaccines provide protection against novel coronavirus infection? This isn't like the old TV game show The $64,000 Question, though. How long COVID-19 vaccines last is a multibillion-dollar question. Billions of dollars on the line Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech (NASDAQ: BNTX) were the first to win U.S....

I've never heard of this lady but she asked this intriguing question and Twitter's almighty algorithm decided it should grace my timeline and so I couldn't help but read some of the replies.I'm glad I did because hoo boy."What was your woke breaking point?" is the question from this woman, who, by the way, defines herself as a liberal in her Twitter bio:As of now there are about 2,000 replies and quote-tweets. Here are 55 of the best, most interesting, and most insane replies ...

There must be something powerful about communism in the structure of armored humans that keeps the ideology alive and well. Despite its failures whenever it has been tried as an experiment, it always comes back with the same destructive force often under a different facade, socialism, progressivism etc. Most recently, it has surfaced in the election of the pseudo-liberal/communists Biden and Harris in the victory of the communist controlled Democratic Party's 2020 American presidential election. The "something" must first be identified and addressed before this social disease of armored humans can finally be put to rest. The power of the...

The first system ‘glitch’ identified in the 2020 election was in Antrim County. The locals decided they had enough of the Dominion voting machines and will count paper ballots in their upcoming May election.Antrim county was the first county to identify irregularities in its 2020 Presidential election results. Only three days after the 2020 election, the county had identified thousands of votes which were incorrectly given to Joe Biden, which stole the county for the Democrat. After these results were identified, the county was properly reported for President Trump:BREAKING: Michigan ‘Computer Glitch’ Fixed, Had Switched 6,000 Votes from President Trump...

Ronny Jackson, a representative for Texas's 13th Congressional District who previously served as a physician to former presidents, is questioning President Biden's health after he slipped boarding Air Force One. Jackson shared his concerns about Biden's condition in a tweet on Sunday afternoon. "I served as White House physician under THREE Presidents. I’ve seen what it takes physically AND mentally to do the job. I can tell you right now that the way Biden is hiding from the public is a MAJOR red flag. Something’s not right!" he wrote. Jackson's remarks followed a series of physical and verbal gaffes from...

Michael Sherwin, the federal prosecutor who until recently was leading the criminal investigation into the Capitol riots, told CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday that evidence indicates sedition charges will be laid against some suspects.Why it matters: Few people have faced this Civil War-era charge, which makes it a crime to conspire or overthrow the government. But Sherwin told CBS' Scott Pelley "the evidence is trending towards that" charge "and probably meets those elements." "I believe the facts do support those charges. And I think that, as we go forward, more facts will support that," he added.Of note: During his interview, Pelley...

The pause on construction of the border wall costs taxpayers about six million dollars per day while construction sites sit idle, Breitbart Texas learned from a senior Department of Homeland Security official. On Sunday, March 21, the 60-day pause in construction of the border wall is scheduled to end. According to the source, the expenditures are required for materials orders placed before the pause and expenses for the cost of equipment sitting idle. When the issuance of a stop work order causes a contractor to idle equipment, they are entitled to be compensated for rental expenses or costs of ownership....

WASHINGTON (WFLA) – A man accused of setting a Florida church on fire last year is facing a federal hate crime charge. Court records show that a federal grand jury in Orlando returned an indictment on Wednesday against 24-year-old Steven Shields. He’s charged with using fire to commit a felony and intentionally damaging religious property. He also faces state arson and burglary charges. According to the indictment, Shields intentionally set fire last July to the Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Ocala. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said last year that Shields plowed a minivan through the church’s front door,...

The Church of England may institute a quota on black and minority ethnic clergy within its ranks as well as institute anti-racism training, according to a report leaked Saturday. The Spectator obtained a copy of a report set to be turned into the Archbishops’ Council next week by the Church of England’s anti-racism task force, which was established after Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby apologized for the denomination’s racist past last year. The British magazine reports that the title of the document, slated to be released to the public on April 22, is “From Lament to Action: Report of the...

Denver Newsroom, Mar 19, 2021 / 03:01 am MT (CNA).- Israeli archaeologists announced this week the discovery of several new sets of Dead Sea Scrolls— ancient fragments of biblical text that have, for the past 70 years, contributed to scholars’ knowledge about the Old Testament. The new scroll fragments, which the Israeli Antiquities Authority announced March 16, include the books of Zechariah and Nahum, both minor prophets. Dr. John Bergsma, professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville who has written and spoken extensively on the Dead Sea Scrolls, told CNA that an interesting feature of the scrolls recently found...

There was an extraordinary public exchange between the U.S. and China before their high-level meetings in Alaska on Thursday. The Chinese dismissed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan as “condescending.” In diplomatic terms, it meant that China felt it didn’t have to listen to anything they said. A U.S. representative anonymously told the media that China was “grandstanding,” which meant essentially the same thing as the Chinese characterization of U.S. officials. In other words, before the meetings even started, both sides had determined not to hear what the other was saying. In case you...

Poor Amy Gardner. She is the fiction writer at the Washington Post who bungled the story on President Donald Trump’s conversation with Georgia state election officials.Gardner’s fake news account made it seem that Trump was urging Georgia officials to illegally reverse the results of the election by hunting down fraud, real or imagined.We now know her source for that information was Jordan Fuchs, a deputy in the office of the Georgia secretary of state.The Washington Post has since published a thick correction to Gardner’s fictional account.But Gardner’s article did what it was designed to do. It contained secret code words...