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U.S. intelligence officials have little comfort to offer a pandemic-weary planet about where the world is heading in the next 20 years. Short answer: It looks pretty bleak. The most certain trends during the next 20 years will be major demographic shifts as global population growth slows and the world rapidly ages. Some developed and emerging economies, including in Europe and East Asia, will grow older faster and face contracting populations, weighing on economic growth. In contrast, some developing countries in Latin America, South Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa benefit from larger working-age populations, offering opportunities for...

Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has died at age 99, the royal family announced Friday. Philip and the queen were married for more than 70 years, making him the longest-serving spouse of a reigning British monarch. He was the oldest-ever male member of the British royal family. Philip was born on the Greek island of Corfu on June 10, 1921, to Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg.

The Queen's twitter.... "It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh."

Prince Phillip dead at age 99.

Older donors who gave a few hundred dollars to former President Donald Trump's reelection campaign said they were shocked to see thousands drained from their accounts. Refund requests jumped in the final months of the campaign. The ensuing surges in credit-card-fraud claims associated with Trump got on the radar of the US's biggest banks. That's all according to a New York Times investigation published Saturday that detailed a recurring-donation scheme it said was referred to as "the money bomb," which the Trump campaign used to pad its coffers in the final months of the campaign through the GOP fundraising platform...

Source: Catalina Lauf for CongressThe 2022 election is miles away. But Republicans are hopeful they’ll retake both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Some Republicans, however, have an appetite to rid of incumbents deemed insufficiently “pro-Trump”—including the ten House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Trump in January.One of those members, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), has attracted a challenger in political newcomer Catalina Lauf. In fact, buzz surrounding her campaign has even garnered interest from the former president.Lauf currently serves as Director of Heartland Global Resources, overseeing brands like BodyWorn Gear and Begin Health, INC. She previously...

The editor-in-chief of the Jewish Press, a Jewish newspaper based in Brooklyn that serves a primarily Orthodox audience, was identified as one of the protesters who breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Elliot Resnick was identified in a video of the Capitol breach by an anonymous researcher and first reported by Politico. Resnick later wrote about the Jan. 6 incident without disclosing that he participated. “Democrats keep on declaring that never again can this country see its Capitol overtaken by a mob,” he wrote in a post from March 17 on the website American Thinker. “Well, there’s an easy...

Losing Rush has been tough. Until a few very long weeks ago, he was always in my life. Like other siblings growing up in the same home, we shared experiences that were exclusive to us. Our parents instilled in us -- and we thoroughly absorbed -- their Christian values: their love of God; their unconditional love for each other and for us; their belief in moral absolutes, of truth, of right and wrong; the paramount importance of family; the critical necessity of personal character and integrity; the value of human life; and the uncompromising duty to treat others with respect...

An Egyptian court sentenced Mahmoud Ezzat, the former acting leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, to life in prison on Thursday, months after he was detained in a Cairo apartment. Security forces arrested Ezzat last August in a raid in Cairo's Fifth Settlement district, the latest blow to a movement that has been the target of a crackdown since it was forced from power in 2013. Ezzat was sentenced on charges of inciting violence and supplying firearms during clashes outside the Brotherhood's headquarters between its supporters and opponents in 2013, a judicial source said. Other senior Brotherhood members have been sentenced...

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadoreans on Sunday will choose between a conservative banker and a left-wing economist in a presidential runoff that follows months of debate over whether the country’s economic malaise can be best treated through socialism or market-friendly policies. Polls broadly indicate socialist Andres Arauz, a protege of former President Rafael Correa, with a lead over rival Guillermo Lasso, with many showing a quarter or more of the electorate either undecided or planning to spoil their ballot. A victory for Arauz would further consolidate a string of leftist electoral victories in South America in the last year, while a...

A good chunk of the Republican political and financial establishment is gathering in a few Florida sites on Friday and through the weekend. They are separate but overlapping events that will compete for dollars and attention. But they share a focal point: former President Donald Trump. The gatherings, organized by the Republican National Committee and two different Trump-friendly outside groups, will take place at and around Trump properties. Yet it's more than physical proximity -- and the cash hauls that can still mean -- that show the former president's outsized role continuing inside the GOP.

The Virginia governor’s race boasts a dozen challengers vying to replace term-limited Democrat Ralph Northam. Five Democrats, including former Gov. Terry McAuliffe and current Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, will seek to top the field in a statewide primary on June 8. Republicans must first do some paring down of their own, choosing delegates who will slot their preferred candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general via ranked-choice voting. This remote convention, which one Trump admirer insists is designed to shut her out, is scheduled for May 8. Republicans haven’t occupied the governor’s mansion in more than a decade. Former...

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Hunter Biden has joked that 'pants were the problem' while he was on crack, during an interview with Jimmy Kimmel to promote his new memoir on Thursday night. Biden also doubled down on his claim that he does not know if the infamous abandoned laptop belongs to him - despite it being verified by top forensics experts for DailyMail.com. The President's son insisted that he does not know if the laptop was his because he was so detached from reality while on drugs - and went on to say that the scandal around the computer is a 'red herring'.

A recent Daily Wire poll released Wednesday found an overwhelming majority agreed Major League Baseball’s (MLB) relocation from Atlanta was driven by “politics and publicity.” The recent poll found 67 percent agreed Major League Baseball’s (MLB) relocation from Atlanta was driven by “politics and publicity.” In comparison, 33 percent said it was driven by a “genuine concern for voters in Georgia.” Other key findings of the poll found 64 percent of Americans were “less likely to support companies and organizations that insert themselves into political issues and debates.” Also finding that 70 percent of all respondents to the survey agree...

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—As COVID numbers have begun to decline and it appears the pandemic is over, Dr. Fauci desperately resorted to his last option: to consume an entire sack of bats in hopes that the coronavirus will spread once again. "The concerning decline in COVID cases has left me with no choice," Dr. Fauci said solemnly as he held open a sack of bats imported from Wuhan. "Release the bats!" His assistant carefully opened the sack, and Fauci pounced. "Get over here, you little rascals!" he shouted as he ran around the room trying to snag as many of them as...

<p>Afghanistan’s last known Jew has “had enough” and plans to leave the country this autumn.</p><p>Zabulon Simantov, a carpet and jewelry merchant, lives on the same Kabul compound as Afghanistan’s only synagogue.</p><p>His decision to move to Israel after the High Holy Days this autumn came, he told Arab News, as a result of losing hope for peace in the country. Mr Simantov’s wife and daughters live in Israel.</p>

Beijing - North Korea on Saturday criticized the United States for abusing the country's "right to self-defense," days after President Joe Biden said Pyongyang's latest launch of ballistic missiles violated U.N. Security Council resolutions. "The new U.S. administration obviously took its first step wrong," Ri Pyong Chol, secretary of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, said in a statement carried in English by the state-run Korean Central News Agency. "We cannot but build invincible physical power for reliably defending the security of our state under the present situation in which South Korea and the U.S. constantly...

A Muslim convert has admitted sharing extremist videos on social media while subject to a terrorism notification order. Convicted terrorist Ibrahim Anderson, 44, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on Wednesday to a string of offences committed in the summer and autumn of 2020. The ginger-bearded defendant, from Luton, Bedfordshire, admitted breaching notification requirements by not providing email details that he was using.The ginger bearded extremist was previosly jailed for three years in 2016 for promoting ISIS on Oxford Street in LondonAnderson had also taken photographs of his young children to promote his extremism This image showed Anderson's young...