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Did you know that Joe Biden is the most popular politician in the history of the United States of America? Yeah, it’s true…this old buffoon who has basically been a worldwide joke for his entire career is more popular than BOTH recent presidents who actually started massive and impressive political “movements.” That’s right, Creepy/Sleepy Joe, who can’t string a sentence together, hold a rally, or walk up a flight of steps, absolutely smoked both Obama and Trump, to become the most beloved and celebrated US politician on record. Do you actually believe any of that? Of course not. Most people...

Police responded to a call of a suspicious package about 9:35 a.m. in the 5000 block of West Madison Street, according to preliminary information from Chicago police. The bomb squad later determined there was a live grenade inside a blue lunch bag, police spokeswoman Sally Bown said.

Sources tell 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS the Washington County Attorney's Office is planning on charging former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter on Wednesday. The case was sent to the Washington County Attorney's Office to avoid a conflict of interest with the Hennepin County Attorney's Office, which works closely with Brooklyn Center Police on criminal cases. The extent of the charges will be learned tomorrow. Brooklyn Center Police released body camera video that shows officer Potter shooting and killing 20-year-old Daunte Wright Sunday afternoon. Brooklyn Center's former police chief, Tim Gannon, publicly stated he believed Potter accidentally discharged her weapon believing...

The New York theater community is banding together to save one of its own. Broadway stars including Matthew Broderick, Chita Rivera and Jane Krakowski — along with famed theater enthusiast Hillary Clinton — are taking part in a virtual performance of “The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)” to help rebuild the York Theatre after it experienced “devastating” damage in January from a water main break. “I’m a big fan of live theater not only for the escape it provides, but because it feeds the human spirit and mind and it plays an essential role in our society and our democracy,”...

Explanation: How fast do elementary particles wobble? A surprising answer to this seemingly inconsequential question came out of Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, USA in 2001, and indicated that the Standard Model of Particle Physics, adopted widely in physics, is incomplete. Specifically, the muon, a particle with similarities to a heavy electron, has had its relatively large wobble under scrutiny in a series of experiments known as g-2 (gee-minus-two). The Brookhaven result galvanized other experimental groups around the world to confirm it, and pressured theorists to better understand it. Reporting in last week, the most sensitive muon wobble experiment...

We better start thinking about it – because the solar e-waste glut is coming soon. When? In 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects, up to 78 million metric tons of solar panels will have reached the end of their life.

And so it begins. With organizers of the recall effort to oust Gov. Gavin Newsom on the cusp of triggering a special election, a colorful cast of hopefuls who want to replace the Democratic leader has started to emerge — including a few familiar faces. Former porn star Mary Carey and Los Angeles billboard icon Angelyne, both of whom ran in the 2003 recall election to replace then-Gov. Gray Davis, have announced they will run to succeed Newsom as governor should the recall effort qualify for the ballot. “I have big plans for California, and it is time for someone...

California’s pause on using the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as federal agencies examine a possible and rare side effect is unlikely to affect vaccination efforts in the nation’s most populous state as it moves to start inoculating people 16 and older this week. State officials directed counties and other providers on Tuesday to halt use of the vaccine per federal recommendation. But Gov. Gavin Newsom said he does not expect the halt to “materially impact our ability to fulfill our expectations.” Vaccinations are expected to be available for people 16 and older Thursday and California plans to lift most pandemic...

We all remember the endless hours spent in our school classrooms learning about declensions, trigonometry or the French future perfect tense. But it turns out that adults really wish they had been taught practical life skills such as how to change a tire, write a CV or plaster over holes and cracks. Money worries headed up the top 20 list of what parents wish they had learned at school — namely how to save cash, advice on budgeting and how to invest. The survey of 1,000 parents revealed that how to cook everyday meals and how to start a business...

An NHS clinical trial has found the £14 inhaler budesonide drug helped non-hospitalised over-50s recover from Covid-19 quickerAn NHS clinical trial has found the £14(USD$19.50) inhaler budesonide helped non-hospitalised over-50s cope with and recover from coronavirus. Participants were also more likely to report a sustained recovery after 28 days - suggesting it cuts the risk of debilitating Long Covid. It means the UK has discovered the world’s first cheap and readily available drug to work for patients to self-treat at home. The findings come in the Government-funded PRINCIPLE clinical trial to quickly identify existing drugs against Covid-19. Researchers said two...

A senior Customs and Border Protection (CBP) official informed Breitbart Texas that Border Patrol agents will deploy to the Mexico-Guatemala boundary to respond to large migrant caravans organizing in Central America. The senior source, speaking on a condition of anonymity, says Border Patrol will deploy 300 agents to assist in the endeavor and will likely play a role in gathering intelligence and work in advisory roles. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced on Monday that Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras are focusing efforts to disperse the caravan through conventional troop deployments. [excerpted] The efforts are the results of discussions with...

Stephen Beadman, 34, was given a life sentence for the rape and murder of Kayleigh Haywood - it has been confirmed that he has now died in prison and his victim's dad has responded to the newsA man who raped and murdered a 15-year-old girl has died in prison with her dad calling his death the "best news ever". Stephen Beadman, 34, was given a life sentence for the rape and murder of Kayleigh Haywood, from Measham, Leicestershire. The girl was killed after being groomed online and her body was dumped in a hedgerow in November 2015. A Prison Service...

"That was an instruction that I gave this morning because illegal traffickers are using children and it is a very serious violation of human rights," said the President Recognizing that the phenomenon of unaccompanied migrant children is serious, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador guaranteed that his government will protect minors because it is a matter of greater concern, due to the risks that may occur during their transit to the United States.... The [Mexican] President recalled that there are cases in which children are left alone because "they are only used by migrant smugglers, coyotes, polleros," so the minors have...

On April 13, AD 585, the Visigothic prince, Hermengild, was slain while in prison. His crimes were multitudinous. To begin with, he had rebelled against his father, King Leovigild. He made alliances with his father’s enemies, the Seuvi and the Byzantines, both of whom had strong presences on the Iberian peninsula and sought gains at the expense of King Leovigild. Hermengild was subsequently betrayed by the Byzantines who made a separate peace with Leovigild in exchange for a tribute in gold. The young prince and his remaining forces were soon defeated by the king and he was made prisoner. His...

Back in April 2016, the Wall Street Journal published an interesting article entitled “CERN Is Seeking Secrets of the Universe, or Maybe Opening the Portal of Hell”, regarding the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 17-mile subterranean loop beneath the France-Switzerland border near Geneva that smashes particles at nearly the speed of light. CERN is “The European Organization for Nuclear Research” that operates the world’s largest particle physics lab, and the LHC is an “atom smasher” to generate antimatter which is invisible. However, in 2012 CERN scientists were able to trap antimatter and observed the Higgs boson or “god particle”, which...

California Governor Gavin Newsom's political future is yet to be decided as the recall effort against him mounts, but he's already a loser when it comes to his COVID restrictions surviving review by the United States Supreme Court. Newsom's disregard for the rights of his fellow citizens amid the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic set up a series of legal showdowns that saw California's governor lose five times in recent months when his restrictive limitations were struck down by SCOTUS. Three of those five losses came at the hands of one group: the Center for American Liberty. "These wins have been in...

Two men have been arrested in connection with the disappearance 25 years ago of the California college student Kristin Smart, the authorities said on Tuesday. Paul Flores, who was the last person to see Ms. Smart on the day she disappeared in May 1996 and whom the authorities had declared in recent months to be a “prime suspect” in the case, was taken into custody at his home in San Pedro, Calif., on Tuesday, Ian Parkinson, the San Luis Obispo County sheriff, said at a news conference.

This year’s Legislature puts Floridians’ rights at risk more than most. A fundamental right is threatened, your voting rights. Specifically, the Republican-controlled Legislature is set on causing inconvenience and confusion for Florida voters about mail-in-voting. These changes will result in voter suppression. Senate Bill 90, sponsored by Republican Sen. Dennis Baxley of Central Florida and already approved by two committees, would force voters to submit vote-by-mail requests more often, which is an inconvenience and also an unnecessary expense for supervisors of elections. Worse, once it takes effect it would cancel voters’ current vote-by-mail ballot requests. This cancellation means voters who...

Neoconservative House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) has slammed President Joe Biden’s reported plan to remove the remaining 2,500 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September. “Withdrawing our forces from Afghanistan by September 11 will only embolden the very jihadists who attacked our homeland on that day twenty years ago,” Cheney declared Tuesday in a statement obtained by National Review. “By declaring that this withdrawal is not based on conditions on the ground, the Biden Administration is sending a dangerous signal that the United States fundamentally does not understand—or is willfully ignorant of—the terrorist threat.”

By Christopher Chantrill The question confronting us Neanderthals during the present leftward lurch is: who exactly is the man behind the curtain pulling the levers of the Biden operation? Barack Obama and his ideologues (who took over the DNC) are now completely in control over the leftist policy execution. Today, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, the former spokesperson for Obama’s State Department, essentially admitted that Obama’s network was in charge, and Biden receives his instructions from the crew. In a way, I’m encouraged, because I don’t think the Obama crew is that smart. I think that if President Obama,...