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BREAKING: Massive explosion at oil refinery in Indramayu, Indonesia

The Vatican extinguished the lights of the dome and the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica for an hour on Saturday night in commemoration of “Earth Hour 2021.” From 8:30pm to 9:30pm the iconic basilica was darkened as a symbolic gesture against climate change, joining monuments of cities across the globe that turned off their lights as well. Vatican News reported that the act was performed “to demonstrate the serious global climate crisis.” Earth Hour is an initiative launched by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in 2007 to call attention to the gravity of the “climate crisis” by symbolically abstaining from...

Source: Twitter/ScreenshotWithout realizing it, White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield on Sunday admitted the crisis at the border is even worse than we previously imagined. ABC News' Jon Karl pointed out that the overwhelming number of illegal aliens, a vast majority of them unaccompanied minors, are not part of the normal spring surge that typically takes place this time of year."We're having record numbers already and the surge that you're about is only just beginning. This is not, I mean in terms of unaccompanied minors, this is not the same as its been," Karl said. "This is worse, is it...

democrats never want to waste a good crisis and the recent shootings are a good example. As we noted, democrats don't care about gun deaths in big cities like Chicago or Baltimore. They don't care when the deaths occur one or two at a time despite how large the body count gets at the end of the year. It's almost like they put on a show. Which is exactly what they do. Many have suggested that existing gun laws should be enforced first because if you do not or refuse to enforce those laws, adding more won't help. I can...

Before she wiped her page on Tuesday, TikTok user hann.brooke95 hadn’t been shy about sharing even the most mundane details of her life with her 19,400 followers. She posted TikToks of herself cooking while breastfeeding, the can of beans she was using for nachos, and even the painstaking process of transferring her license as a pharmacy tech from Florida to Illinois: from filling out the application, to affixing a return address label and stamp on the envelope, to dropping it in the mailbox in front of her house. And the stream of everyday minutiae might have continued if she hadn’t...

Washington was considered ground zero for COVID-19 in the U.S., and now 23 travelers from the state are being monitored for another deadly contagious virus: Ebola. Add 4 in Oregon and 40 in Ohio! The travelers recently returned from the West African countries of Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo — where there are outbreaks of the deadly virus — according to a news release from the state’s Department of Health. The risk of Ebola coming to the United States remains “extremely low,” according to a news release last month from the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention. Likewise,...

A shipping vessel that could clog the Suez Canal for weeks is the latest piece added to an ever-evolving conspiracy theory about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other members of a so-called “deep state” and links to human trafficking. Communications channels where QAnon conspiracy theories spread were humming this week about a connection between Clinton and the quarter-mile-long ship that ran aground as high winds cut across the canal. Those seeped into mainstream social media as well, including posts on Facebook and Instagram, where users tied Clinton’s Secret Service codename to the ship and suggested its radio call...

<p>CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Three local businesses are at the mercy of the Ohio Liquor Control Commission after the Ohio Investigative Unit (OIU) cited them for not following Gov. DeWine’s health orders.</p><p>Game on Lakewood in Lakewood was cited for improper conduct - disorderly activity, according to a press release.</p>

Update on the Fox News Post-Steal/Post-Arizona ratings collapse. Here are the current Fox News ratings losses since The Steal according to Nielsen as of Wednesday 3/24: Breem -61% Cavuto -58% Ingraham -58% Hannity -56% MacCallum -55% Fox News Primetime 7pm -55% Baier -54% Carlson -51% Outnumbered -50% Smith/Roberts -48% Perino/Hemmer -48% Fox and Friends -47% Faulkner -44% The Five -41%

For Americans gripped with fear and confusion over the rapid spread of the coronavirus, Cuomo and Fauci have emerged as unexpected emotional life rafts Throughout March, Cuomo has held near-daily news conferences updating New Yorkers with dire statistics on ventilators and hospital beds. In response, PresidentCuomo has trended on Twitter, the governor’s updates repeatedly hailed as “comforting,” even by users who don’t live in New York. Meanwhile, a Twitter user recently posted a photo of doughnuts decorated with photos of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who earlier in the day made...

It's every man's right to have babies, even though they can't do it.

Some friends of mine have been making interesting comparisons of the parallels between the completely unnecessary crises created by President Biden (at the border) and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. I am sure there are others, as well, but these are the ones we have come up with for now.

Many along this stretch of the border near Juarez were looking to turn themselves in to border patrol, while others have hired smugglers to try to evade agents. One smuggler spoke with CBS News on condition of anonymity. Even with the risk of being deported, they still want to try. Family members in the U.S. tell them to keep trying, he said. His operation includes ladders to scale the wall, with peep holes to watch for border patrol — about $1,000 a try. In six months, he said 80 to 100 people have paid him to cross the border. Smugglers...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) 20% of American Adults are now fully vaccinated. Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 180,646,465 (4,946,300 J&J) Administered: 143,462,691 (3,090,712 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 93,631,163 Fully Vaccinated: 50,141,769

CNN has seen ratings plummet since former President Donald Trump left the White House, according to a Fox News report on Nielsen Media Research data. The network averaged 2.5 million primetime viewers between the day after the election— November 4, 2020 — and Inauguration Day on January 20, 2021, Fox News reported. Since President Joe Biden was sworn in, however, those numbers have dropped dramatically. An average of 1.6 million viewers tuned in during primetime hours between January 21 and March 15, Fox News said. That's a downturn of 36% since Biden took office. Primetime viewers also ditched CNN in...

MCALLEN, Texas (KFOR) – Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and 18 of his U.S. Senate colleagues traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border Friday to spotlight what they say are border security issues caused by the Biden Administration.The group of Republican senators, with Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas acting as the lead, went down to the border as part of their response to a recent surge of migrants at the southern border. Republican senators visit border after Biden defends policy decisions Lankford, who went to the border on a day-trip, and his colleagues toured a Temporary Processing Facility in Donna, Texas, which...

Former President Trump's exit from the White House coincided with a slump in ratings for cable news channels and digital news sites, according to a Washington Post analysis. Data from media tracking firm ComScore as well as the Nielsen company indicated drops in traffic across websites for the Post, which lost roughly one-fourth of its monthly web traffic, as well as The New York Times, which lost roughly 17 percent of its traffic over January and February. In the cable news ratings wars, CNN lost nearly 50 percent of its prime-time audience over the first few months of 2021, according...

This week, Biden-Appointee Rachel (previously Richard) Levine made history after being confirmed by the Senate as the first transgender assistant health secretary. Parental rights have never been at a greater risk, and Biden’s home state of Delaware seems to be the first to test the waters, moving quickly to silence parents who oppose the use of their children as a diversity prop for the LGBTQ agenda. Delaware father, Adam Bailey took a stand. Newly appointed Laurel Little League President and diversity activist Michael Snead of Delaware gave a family member a Tee-Ball Coaching position within Laurel Little League’s organization. This...

Christine Duffy’s message painted the picture quite clearly already, but Carnival Cruise line has now also made amendments to its payment and cancellation policy. In an e-mail sent to guests and travel agents, the cruise line said it had made no change in its plans to cruise in June 2021. The cruise line intends to sail only from US ports and, as the president said before, will not be moving ships to any other homeports to circumvent the CDC and its safe sailing framework. However, Carnival Cruise Line has changed its cancellation and payment policies to give guests more freedom...