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Federal investigators executed a search warrant at Rudy Giuliani’s apartment in Manhattan as part of an investigation involving dealings with Ukraine, according to a Wednesday report.While the warrant is not an explicit accusation of wrongdoing against Mr. Giuliani, it shows that the investigation has entered an aggressive new phase. To obtain a search warrant, investigators need to persuade a judge they have sufficient reason to believe that a crime was committed and that the search would turn up evidence of the crime.

President Joe Biden will deliver his first address to Congress on Wednesday evening, but only about 12.5 percent of the seats will be filled due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions. Two hundred people will attend Biden’s speech on Wednesday night, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has limited attendance.

Some parts of Democratic Twitter go nuts when it is pointed out that President Biden's 100-day job approval rating is the third-lowest of any president since World War II. (Only Donald Trump and Gerald Ford were lower.) All that matters to the most partisan Democrats, apparently, is that Biden's approval rating is higher than Trump's.But why is Biden's 100-day rating below so many other presidents? A chart of presidential 100-day ratings compiled by pollster Bill McInturff -- he is the Republican half of the team that polls for the Wall Street Journal and NBC News -- shows that polarization between...

To the Editor: I read with interest “Vaccines May Affect Women Differently” (news article, April 18). It fails to address what I consider some other important questions concerning weight, dosage and side effects. For example, does one size fit all? With regard to Covid vaccines, everyone gets the same dose, whether the patient is a 5-foot-2 woman weighing 105 pounds or a 6-foot-4 man weighing 210 pounds. And some individuals are more sensitive to medications than others, and are more likely to suffer side effects (including tinnitus, which I experienced). I believe in vaccines, and we all hope they are...

No one understood the dynamics of ideological persecution and the failure of society better than German pastor Martin Niemoller. In his famous post-World War II confessional speech, he said (in paraphrase): “First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a communist. Then they came for the socialists, then the trade unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a socialist nor a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there...

Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) announced Wednesday he will run for U.S. Senate in North Carolina to fill the seat of retiring Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC). Budd, a gun store owner from Davie County, released a video of the announcement that detailed his positions on issues and prominently featured him campaigning alongside former President Donald Trump.

A 12-year-old in North Carolina used the downtime he had during the pandemic to take on a few extra classes in school. Now, one year later, Mike Wimmer, of Salisbury, is getting ready to graduate high school and college -- in the same week. Wimmer completed four years of school in one year -- two years of high school and a two-year associate's degree. He will graduate from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College on May 21, and from Concord Academy High School on May 28, where he is valedictorian. But this wasn't always Wimmer's plan, he said. The student was taking dual...

Last fall, California governor Gavin Newsom signed The Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act, a bill which, among other things, would “allow incarcerated transgender, non-binary and intersex people to be housed and searched in a manner consistent with their gender identity.” Since this law went into effect back in January, in a new case of “rapid onset gender dysphoria,” over 200 prisoners have requested to be transferred from men’s prisons into those detaining women. As of April 6th, not a single request has been denied.California’s Idiosyncrasies Could Become National LawImagine attempting to argue for this law 20 years ago. Imagine...

Last month, the cancel culture mob found a new target in Sharon Osbourne after she dared to defend her friend Piers Morgan from claims that he is racist simply for criticizing Meghan Markle. Now, Sharon’s daughter Kelly Osbourne is defiantly speaking out to say “f*** cancel culture.” Kelly’s comments contrast the ones made by LeVar Burton, who has become a frontrunner to be named host of “Jeopardy!”

Food website Epicurious will no longer publish beef recipes, citing the impact of raising and consuming cattle on climate change. Cutting out beef from one's diet is "a worthwhile first step" in cooking more sustainably, wrote Maggie Hoffman, senior editor at Epicurious and David Tamarkin, former digital director of Epicurious in a blog post Monday. Livestock accounts for nearly 15% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions — 41% of those emissions comes from beef, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Fossil fuels produce the pesticides and fertilizers used to grow the corn and soybeans consumed by...

Brandy Parker-McFadden is still a proponent of the Covid-19 vaccines. We, on the other hand, are not. A Nashville woman felt extreme pain in her neck before waking up paralyzed from the neck down less than 24-hours after taking the second dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. Brandy Parker-McFadden, a mother of three, has been hospitalized for nearly two weeks. Her story has gone nearly completely unreported by mainstream media with local media only picking up the story after Parker-McFadden started getting sensation back in her extremities. That local news outlet, WKRN News 2 in Nashville, has been bracketing the...

We’ve been hearing about the importance of eliminating meat for a long time, no matter what the media say today. ---------------------------------------------------------- The media like to play this neat trick in which they highlight some conservative hyperbole about Democrats, and then pretend the entire underlying concern that motivated discussion of the topic is nothing but a wild conspiracy theory cooked up in a vacuum. Take the issue of meat. “Biden is not coming for Americans’ Big Macs, chicken wings or bacon,” the Washington Post informs us. CNN ran one of their typically idiotic chyrons yesterday: “BIDEN PREPS ADDRESS TO NATION AS...

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Tuesday on her show “Deadline” that the “sick Republicans Party is just full of grease and sugar and fat and junk.” Wallace said, “Another day, another heaping serving of GOP misinformation. Another demonstrably false myth ping-ponging around the conservative media echo chamber. This one started with a single photo from a Reuters photographer of Vice President Kamala Harris’ book, ‘Supers Heroes Are Everywhere, propped up against a backpack by a migrant shelter in California. The New York Post slapped that photo on its front page, and its webpage homepage alleging falsely, without evidence or attribution,...

Political leaders, corporate executives, and everyday citizens need to call these activist causes what they are: distractions unworthy of our attention.Our flags seem perpetually at half-staff. They came halfway down in honor of the Atlanta shooting victims, and for when we crossed the somber total of an estimated 500,000 Americans who died with coronavirus. They were lowered in honor of U.S. Capitol Police Officer William “Billy” Evans, in honor of the Boulder, Colorado shooting victims, and in honor of the Indianapolis shooting victims. They fell for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Chadwick Boseman.Perhaps some of these memorial actions are warranted...

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers’ Department of Administration won’t release documents on the damage caused to state buildings during last summer’s riots because doing so would compromise “the integrity” of Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne’s ongoing prosecution. It’s the latest example of Evers’ closed government practices and his administration’s twisting of the state’s open records laws, transparency experts assert. Empower Wisconsin has long sought damage estimates and communications involving the Black Lives Matter protests last June that turned destructive and violent in Downtown Madison. A mob smashed Capitol windows, set fire to Madison’s City-County Building, dragged down iconic statues...

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said during a virtual town hall Saturday that the infrastructure bill touted by President Joe Biden focuses more on “transitioning to a clean, green economy” than physical infrastructure.

Norwegian Cruise Line Ships Photo Credit: Stepniak / Shutterstock.com Major news from Norwegian Cruise Line as it seems the pressure the line has been applying to the CDC has not worked. The line has now canceled most voyages departing from US ports for a large part of the summer. Some of these cancelations run well into the fall, including as far back as November. It shows the cruise line has very little confidence we will be seeing any cruises departing the US. It also points out the conversations that have been ongoing between the CDC and the cruise lines are...

President Joe Biden has nominated a Texas sheriff, Ed Gonzalez, to lead Immigrations and Customs Enforcement for the Department of Homeland Security. Since 2017, Gonzales has served as sheriff of Harris County, Texas, which is the largest sheriff office in Texas and the third-largest in the country. He has led a team of 5,000 employees in the position and previously served 18 years with the Houston Police Department, rising to the rank of sergeant, according to his profile on his office's website. If confirmed by the Senate as the next director of ICE, Gonzales would lead the agency charged with...

One of the country's top physicists, who served as the Department of Energy Undersecretary during the Obama administration, is out with a new book that pushes back on climate change hysteria and debunks the politically charged statement that the science is "settled" on the issue. "Physicist Steven Koonin kicks the hornet’s nest right out of the gate in “Unsettled.” In the book’s first sentences he asserts that 'the Science' about our planet’s climate is anything but “settled.” Mr. Koonin knows well that it is nonetheless a settled subject in the minds of most pundits and politicians and most of the...

Federal agents executed a search warrant at the New York City apartment of Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday morning to seize electronic devices and collect evidence in connection to an ongoing Department of Justice criminal investigation, according to The New York Times.