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THE world’s first 'floating' sky pool with a glass bottom and views from 115ft above the streets of London is opening next month. The 82ft pool will hold 400 tons of water, and also have the best views of the billion-dollar US Embassy as well as the House of Parliament and the London Eye. The pool was shipped 5,000 miles from Colorado, and is connected to each building using technology that allows it to move as the buildings settle as well as adapting for wind sway. Flats at The Embassy Gardens development start at £600,000, and rise to £5 million...

The federal government’s decision to pause Johnson & Johnson vaccines for 11 days as scientists studied dangerous blood clotting episodes may ultimately boost confidence in vaccine safety, Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, said Sunday.

Iranian eyes will be on Washington this week while looking over their shoulder at home. The Iranians are looking over their shoulder because a series of attacks attributed to them and their puppets in the Middle East are targeting Israeli commercial ships and firing rockets at Israel from Gaza and Syria. This is coupled with Israel’s reported retaliation against Iranian military ships, and explosion deep underneath an Iranian nuclear facility, raising eyebrows as to Israel’s reach and Iranian vulnerability. Iranians are eying Washington this week as the Mossad director, Yossi Cohen, and Israeli National Security Advisor, Meir Ben-Shabbat, will be...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Cases now heading downward at the National level) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 290,692,005 (17,641,150 J&J) Administered: 228,661,408 (8,079,863 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 139,978,480 Fully Vaccinated: 94,772,329

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It may be the largest fraud case in U.S. history — perhaps world history as well, although the oil-for-food scandal engineered by Saddam Hussein in the 1990s would give the Golden State fleecing of the unemployment system a run for its money. The stupendous size of the unemployment claims scandal in California is purely the result of incompetence. Individuals, criminal gangs, hackers, and state actors siphoned as much as $31 billion away from the California government. It was a free-for-all that even had criminals locked away in California prisons stealing billions of dollars right under the noses of the guards....

Harris has been to California and other states, but says "COVID issues" prevent her from visiting the border "The kind of work that has to happen is the diplomatic work that we have been engaged in, including my calls to the president of Mexico, the president of Guatemala," Harris said on CNN's "State of the Union." "But it's not going to be solved overnight. It's a complex issue. Listen, if this were easy, it would have been handled years ago." "This is about the Western Hemisphere. We are a neighbor in the Western Hemisphere, and it is also about understanding...

Iran’s Armed Forces chief Mohammad Bagheri on Sunday threatened to “teach Israel a very good lesson,” appearing to hint the Jewish state was behind a reported attack on an Iranian tanker off Syria’s coast over the weekend, but stopping short of blaming Jerusalem directly for the incident. Bagheri told reporters: “We don’t announce anything about the incidents that happened recently, nor do we know who did it, but the Resistance Front will teach Israel a very good lesson,” according to several Iranian journalists. “Israelis think they can keep hitting Syria and making mischievous moves elsewhere and in the seas and...

Raise your hand if you’re fed up with people on social media posting stories on Instagram or tweets on Twitter that seem to immediately virtue signal the moment news of another shooting occurs.Me too!Especially when the level of information about the alleged victim is thoroughly unknown—minus some baby picture—the media mysteriously has its hands on usually within what seems like only seconds after the incident.The unspoken assumption in it all is that these woke—usually white suburban females—who literally know next to nothing about the difficulty of police work in troubled neighborhoods—are trying to “out-care” the “hardened” hearts of everyone who...

As we wrote earlier, Kamala Harris doesn’t seem to have done much to deal with the border crisis since she was given her commission about a month ago. The White House insisted afterward that she was just supposed to be dealing with the “root causes.” But she hasn’t seemed to have done anything with regard to those either and no one seems to be doing anything to address the present crisis. Harris does plan to talk to the Mexican president on May 7 about extending a program of planting trees to Central America. I’m sure that will stop the folks...

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It doesn’t take much intelligence to see that things have gone terribly wrong for America. We’ve got a security and humanitarian crisis raging at our southern border. In spite of massive vaccinations, Covid-19 and now some other variants of the disease are gaining ground across the nation. On top of this, Joe Biden is allowing a second deadly wave of Covid to rush across the border carried by 10 to 12 percent of migrants who arrive at the border already infected with the pandemic. And the percentage of the infected might even be higher because we’re only spot-checking migrants as...

The last couple of days have been filled with exciting news for technology magnate Elon Musk, who is CEO of electric carmaker Tesla and chief engineer of SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company. NBC announced over the weekend that Musk would host Saturday Night Live on May 8. The iconic sketch-comedy show is in its 46th season. Miley Cyrus is scheduled to be the musical guest the night Musk hosts.

en. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said federal government officials’ insistence on wearing masks in public appearances has discouraged people from getting the COVID-19 vaccine, suggesting that it’s not necessary for fully vaccinated individuals to keep wearing masks around in public. Describing the move as “theater,” Paul said that it would harm efforts to get people vaccinated if the public doesn’t believe the shot has an impact in curbing the spread of the virus. He was referring to an online meeting between world leaders, in which President Joe Biden was the only official wearing a mask. Biden forgot that “this theater was...

CARIBBEAN SEA—In an effort to gain 2 more Democrat senators, The Democrat party is calling for statehood to be granted to Little Saint James in the Caribbean-- also known as Epstein's Island. "The good people of Epstein's Island have been denied representation in Congress for far too long," said Nancy Pelosi to the press. The island has been a second home to influential members of Congress for decades. It is a place in keeping with the finest traditions of Washington politicians, and it's high time they got two Senators to send to Congress." Those familiar with the island say it...

Dr. Anthony Fauci believes the Centers for Disease Control will soon provide updated COVID-19 guidance on using face masks in outdoor settings, calling it "common sense" to do so. Face masks have taken an increasingly central role in debate lately as many question the continued and widespread use of masks even as vaccinations continue to soar nationwide. A Georgia mother went viral this week after she sounded off on her local school board continuing its mask mandate through next year. Fauci agrees with some of that thought, saying that the risk for people engaging in outdoor activities is "minuscule," especially...

This won't change your opinion one whit, but you will be placed in the position of disavowing a lie, or supporting it. Eliza Doolittle's father, Stanley Holloway, says to Rex Harrison, "You Worship". He isn't deifying him, it's short for "your worthyship". “I thee worship” means the husband honors the wife; he's not making her a goddess. Why do Catholics worship the Virgin Mary? It's not that they give her the Adoration solely due to God, called Latria. They give the saints Dulia, veneration--there's a stained-glass window in Westminster Presbyterian by the California State Capital, of John Calvin--he's venerated, he's...

Much hullabaloo was made of being able to read books electronically, such as on Kindle, Nook, iPad, etc. For a while, I became an ardent adopter of the concept. I would download my books to read electronically. For a few years, I would do most of my reading this way. But it never did feel the same as the tactile experience of reading a physical book. I'm one who like to flip back a few pages to re-read or to reference the maps and what not in the beginning of the book. It was always cumbersome to do this electronically....

Biden’s new climate plan will strip Montana of a vital industry and bankrupt our ranchesSenator Jon Tester (D) wears his agricultural credentials on his sleeve, eagerly relaying to Montana’s farmers and ranchers each campaign how much he supports ag producers, considering he is one. Tester’s family runs an organic farm near Big Sandy, where he pops in to take campaign photos every half-decade or so. But with Biden’s new climate orders in place, the days of Montana’s cattle ranchers being able to conscientiously vote Democrat may soon be over.Montana’s farming and ranching industry accounts for more than 3.6 billion dollars...

A new variant of the coronavirus has developed in India, one that is making public health officials worried because it may be causing the country's terrible outbreak and could reduce the efficacy of available vaccines. The India variant, known as B.1.617 and first identified in October, has been dubbed the “double mutant” variant because it contains two mutations of interest, E484Q and L452R. These are mutations on the spike protein, the part of the virus that attaches to a cell. "Having two of these mutations which have been seen in other variants around the world are concerning, because there's a...