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Force said an unspecified number were detained and warned the public over the spread of indecent images \ Dubai Police arrested a group of people following an incident on the balcony of a Dubai Marina apartment. The force on Saturday night said the arrests were made under laws covering lewd behaviour. It came after footage was shared on Twitter of a large group of women posing naked on the balcony of a penthouse apartment. Police said a "criminal case has been registered against the arrested, and they have been referred to Public Prosecution for further legal action". "Dubai Police warns...

Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers. The information appears to be several years old, but it is another example of the vast amount of information collected by Facebook and other social media sites, and the limits to how secure that information is. The availability of the data set was first reported by Business Insider. According to that publication, it has information from 106 countries including phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, and email addresses. Facebook has been grappling with data security issues for years. In 2018, the...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Saturday that the car attack on the Capitol underscores the need for Congress to address security concerns at the complex as lawmakers remain divided over the issue. The statement came a day after an attacker rammed a car into a barrier at the Capitol. Capitol Police officer William “Billy” Evans died from wounds he suffered during the attack. The suspect was shot to death by police after he lunged at officers with a knife. “Yesterday’s attack at the Capitol, which resulted in the death of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Billy Evans and injured...

...one of the best-loved songs ever recorded about the Civil War: "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" by The Band. The song was first recorded in 1969, and was later covered and/or performed by Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Jerry Garcia, the Black Crowes, Bruce Hornsby, and the Allman Brothers Band, among others...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Saturday put Johnson & Johnson in charge of a troubled Baltimore manufacturing plant that ruined 15 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine and moved to stop the plant from making another vaccine by AstraZeneca, senior federal health officials said. The extraordinary move by the Department of Health and Human Services came just days after officials had learned that Emergent BioSolutions, a contract manufacturer that has been making both the Johnson & Johnson and the AstraZeneca vaccines, mixed up ingredients from the two, which led regulators to delay authorization of the plant’s...

Though it may not be clear that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is collapsing for many westerners, the Chinese are quite certain the crash of the Chinese regime is imminent as over 375 million Chinese have quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations.The CCP—which is on the verge of a crisis—has again raised the banner of nationalism in order to save itself.It has been a regular tactic over the past century when it has been cornered and has had no other choice.The latest nationalist campaign started with the CCP’s diplomatic system when Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on March...

Yesterday, Major League Baseball (MLB) announced they were moving the All-Star game out of Atlanta. They didn’t like the election integrity laws passed in Georgia. Biden supported this move. Now, GOP lawmakers are threatening MLB’s antitrust exemption. GOP Rep. Jeff Duncan (SC-R) announced that he ordered his staff to introduce legislation to strip them of their antitrust exception. (SEE INSERTS AND TWEETS)

America’s manufacturing sector has been struggling of late, and has lost more than 500,000 jobs since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Compounding these woes is a recent, global shortage of semiconductor chips. A heavy reliance on computer chips from Taiwan and Korea has hit U.S. manufacturers hard. The nation’s auto sector has been particularly affected, with Ford F, -0.65% forced to cut back production of its F-150 truck and GM GM, +0.59% halting operations at three plants. All of this points to the wider problem of America’s rising import dependence. Reliance on overseas semiconductor producers has put the United...

Little Debbie is racist.

BEIJING is using an "insidious" policy of coercion and pressure to assert its control over the South China Sea, a leading Asia analyst has said. China has long claimed sovereignty over the disputed waters, saying that the entire waterway up to the coasts of the Philippines, Malaysia and Taiwan belongs to it. Beijing's claim is based on the U-shaped nine-dash line etched onto a map in the 1940s by a Chinese geographer. In 2016, an international court of arbitration dismissed China's territorial claims. Despite the ruling, the People's Republic has in recent years built artificial islands in the waters claimed...

Welcome to the weekend. He got the harshest prison sentence in connection with the 1972 burglary of the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic Party. G. Gordon Liddy passed away at the age of 90 this week. In 1978 around a year after his sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter, Liddy spoke to William F. Buckley Jr. on "Firing Line". Liddy says the feds wanted him to be a snitch and he wasn't... Newsdump Easter Weekend Alert: British Government Admitting Blood Clot Deaths Following COVID Vaccination With Astra Zeneca Vaccine But Denying Link For Now... Is The FBI Trying To...

Headlining a diversity and inclusion webinar hosted by an elite California K-12 preparatory school on Wednesday, Marxist Angela Davis called on students at the $47,300 a year prep school to "dismantle capitalism." Davis, a militant black power activist and former Communist Party member, headlined the final session of the Head-Royce School's 2021 CommunityEd series. "Ultimately I think we're going to have to dismantle capitalism if we really want to move in a progressive direction, if we want our children and children's children and their children to begin to move along a trajectory that is described by freedom," she said. Davis...

The social media platform YouTube is engaging in the duplicitous practice of scrubbing dislikes from Biden videos to protect the president’s political image, new data reveals. The data, obtained by the Epoch Times, shows that YouTube has deleted an astounding 2.5 million dislikes from Biden’s videos. “YouTube has deleted about 2.5 million ‘dislikes’ from videos on the official White House channel of President Joe Biden, according to data collected and posted online by a researcher who wished to remain anonymous,” the Epoch Times reported. “YouTube recently announced that it’s testing a new page design that hides the dislike count.” “The...

Abstract Systemic metabolic alterations associated with increased consumption of saturated fat and obesity are linked with increased risk of prostate cancer progression and mortality, but the molecular underpinnings of this association are poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate in a murine prostate cancer model, that high-fat diet (HFD) enhances the MYC transcriptional program through metabolic alterations that favour histone H4K20 hypomethylation at the promoter regions of MYC regulated genes, leading to increased cellular proliferation and tumour burden. Saturated fat intake (SFI) is also associated with an enhanced MYC transcriptional signature in prostate cancer patients. The SFI-induced MYC signature independently predicts prostate...

Archbishop Viganò: A Meditation on the Passion and Death of the LordThe Saviour reminds us that His most holy Passion must also be fulfilled in his Mystical Body - the Church.This is your hour; it is the reign of darkness. Luke 22:53The texts of the liturgy of the Sacred Triduum strike us, like the lash of a whip, for the crude brutality of the torments to which the Lord was subjected by the will of the Sanhedrin, at the order of the Roman procurator. The crowd, instigated by the high priests, invokes the innocent blood of the Son of God...

John Kerry is holding out hope that China will cooperate with US efforts to grapple with climate change — despite contentious relations between the two nations. “Our hope is that we’re going to be able to deal with yes, China,” Kerry, the Biden administration’s Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, told reporters in Dubai on Saturday. “President Biden has made it clear and I’ve made it clear,” he said. “None of the other issues we have with China — and there are issues — is held hostage to or is engaged in a trade for what we need to do on...

In a report out tonight from FOX News on Hunter Biden, Hunter declares in his upcoming book that he – began a relationship with his late brother’s widow when she was at her ‘neediest’ and he at his ‘lowest’. What he doesn’t share is that this relationship reportedly occurred when his brother was still alive and sick with cancer. FOX News reported today on Hunter’s upcoming book. We should have known it was fiction. FOX reports: In Hunter Biden’s forthcoming tell-all book, the president’s son describes how his relationship with his late brother’s widow had been borne out of desperation....

I’ll be going maskless to the early service tomorrow. This is a former church of mine that I attended several years ago until I saw the writing on the walls on how “seeker sensitive” they’ve been. They require masks until you are seated. How far should I push this?

INDIANAPOLIS — Gonzaga men's basketball is two wins away from a national title. The No. 1 Bulldogs are facing off against the No. 11 UCLA Bruins in the Final Four on Saturday. Follow along below for live updates and big moments from the matchup against Gonzaga and UCLA. No. 1 Gonzaga is leading 45-44 at the half against No. 11 UCLA. UCLA has shot 58.3% so far. Gonzaga is having a hard time pushing because the Bruins aren’t missing shots.