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The family of Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot while participating in the pro-Trump invasion of the U.S. Capitol, plans to sue the police department and the officer who fired the gun for at least $10 million.News of the forthcoming lawsuit came more than two weeks after the Justice Department said it would not file criminal charges against the officer who killed Babbitt.Terrell Roberts, an attorney for the Babbitt family, told CNBC it had not been determined when, or in which court, the civil lawsuit against the U.S. Capitol Police would be filed.

British Vogue is being lambasted after the magazine published an article asking if having a baby in 2021 is "pure environmental vandalism" due to the resources a child consumes. "Before I got pregnant, I worried feverishly about the strain on the earth’s resources that another Western child would add," writes Nell Frizzell, author of "The Panic Years." "The food he ate, the nappies he wore, the electricity he would use; before he’d even started sitting up, my child would have already contributed far more to climate change than his counterpart in, say, Kerala or South Sudan." She adds: "I also...

Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin will soon begin selling tickets for rides on its space tourism rocket called New Shepard. Blue Origin did not reveal how much tickets will cost, only saying that more details will come on May 5. New Shepard is designed to carry as many as six people on a ride past the edge of space, with the capsules on previous test flights reaching an altitude of more than 340,000 feet. To date, Virgin Galactic has sold tickets to about 600 passengers at a price between $200,000 and $250,000 each, although the company expects it could...

Have you ever wondered who the longest-serving Republican member of Congress is? That would be Rep. Don Young, the 87-year-old Republican who has represented Alaska's At-Large district since 1973. According to Suzanne Downing with Must Read Alaska, he just filed for reelection on Tuesday:Congressman Don Young and Anne Young stopped by the Division of Elections in Anchorage on Tuesday and filed for the 2022 election. Young has been Alaska’s member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1973 and is the longest continuously serving member of the House.In 2017, Young became Dean of the House, the longest-serving representative and the...

DUNEDIN — A federal court upheld the City of Dunedin’s decision to issue almost $30,000 in code violation fines in 2018 to a homeowner for an overgrown lawn.Jim Ficken sued Dunedin in May 2019 after the city agreed to foreclose on his home, according to court records. He and his lawyers argued Dunedin’s fines were excessive and given with no notice.After a two-year legal battle, a judge from the Middle District of Florida ruled on Monday that the 71-year-old will have to pay up. Ficken said he plans to appeal the court’s decision.“The city’s behavior toward Jim is outrageous,” read...

In response to Biden Administration's complaint that FOX News doesn't show enough Black and Hispanic people on their network, FOX has announced that they will now air "America's Most Wanted " TWICE a week.

The truth that will be uncovered will rock the world in more aspects than just a fraudulent election. This voter fraud was so massive, it is almost laughable that the Democrats never considered how audacious this win for Biden would be in terms of “not a chance in hell.” Biden didn’t win. And yet, all the powers behind this massive fraud never thought to make it a neck and neck race – for believability? Another way Liberals are foolish, they believe the world is gullible. So as the dominoes start to tumble and the irrefutable proof comes to light, this...

This is at least the third poll I’ve seen in the last few months suggesting that the people who should be taking the most precautions are taking the least and the people who should be taking the least precautions are taking the most. Gallup published data to that effect in March, then YouGov earlier this month, now CNN. It’s not just an irony or curiosity of the pandemic, it’s a major messaging problem. Experts like Leana Wen and various righty pundits like me have made the point that Biden and other vaccinated federal officials should take off their masks and...

Jack Ma, now China’s fourth-richest man and the former CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, criticized China’s financial system policies at the Bund Summit 2020 in October. Since then, his enterprises have become the target of Xi Jinping.At first, the listing plan for Ant Group, an affiliate company of Alibaba, was halted on Nov. 3. On April 10 this year, the Alibaba Group was fined $2.8 billion on the grounds that it violated an antitrust law, and Ma’s elite business school, Hupan University, was forced to halt enrolments.I don’t think Ma’s troubles are over.But why did Xi Jinping purge Ma?...

China’s industrial sector is suffering from a severe shortage of semiconductor chips, following U.S. sanctions and other supply problems, which is seriously slowing down the country’s manufacturing capacity. Recently, Tsinghua University announced the establishment of a new school that would help solve the country’s chip shortage problem, as Chinese leaders promote a Marxist approach to speed up chip production. But experts say China has a long way to go. On April 22, Tsinghua University in Beijing announced the establishment of the School of Integrated Circuits that would help China build up its own chip market and cut its reliance on...

Today comes the stunning and sickening report that multiple women, after receiving their first shot of the Pfizer COVID vaccine, are waking up paralyzed from the neck down, and remain in that condition, in some cases for days. And even after regaining feeling and movement from neck to wait, one woman is still unable to walk weeks later. But don’t pay any attention to all that stuff, just turn your brain off and run right out and get your COVID jab today! Go kid your grandma, I know better than that, and so do you! What was Pfizer’s reaction upon...

A satellite experiment has revealed that the heaviest known neutron star is unexpectedly large, which suggests that the matter in the star’s inner core is less “squeezable” than some models predict. NICER measures the size of a neutron star by tracking the x-ray emission from “hot spots” on the surface as the star rotates. These spots occur at the magnetic poles of the star, where the field slams particles onto the star surface. Neutron stars are “cosmic zombies”­—corpses of massive stars that collapsed in violent explosions after running out of fuel. By studying these ultradense objects, researchers hope to understand...

In California, kids just got loaded up with reading material.On Monday, parents of kiddos in the San Diego Unified School District received an email.The superintendent let them know of new resources coming into the system.Per the message, nonprofit Gender Nation would be donating 2,000 “age-appropriate LGBTQ+ inclusive” books.As reported by The Daily Wire, the missive explained that, in an effort to “empower students through inclusive stories,” the district would “now have access to more literature specifically geared towards LGBTQ+ students.”Gender Nation’s website describes its goals:We help communities empower and validate children with LGBTQ+ storytelling.Libraries are sanctuaries, but they often don’t...

Explanation: Our fair planet sports a curved, sunlit crescent against the black backdrop of space in this stunning photograph. From the unfamiliar perspective, the Earth is small and, like a telescopic image of a distant planet, the entire horizon is completely within the field of view. Enjoyed by crews on board the International Space Station, only much closer views of the planet are possible from low Earth orbit. Orbiting the planet once every 90 minutes, a spectacle of clouds, oceans, and continents scrolls beneath them with the partial arc of the planet's edge in the distance. But this digitally restored...

I enjoy many types of music at some point or another. I have a CD by Roy Rodgers and Dale Evans. I never tire of hearing Tumbleweed or 'Cool Clear Water'. I was looking for something similar but more recent. I took a chance on this CD collection by Charley Pride. The Essential Charley Pride. This is what I call a Back to Back playable album collection. Meaning, I enjoy listening to it from the first to the last of 20 songs. (Maybe just one track that I can do without). I came across a sweet little tune that pleasantly...

(h/t Holly B)Many of us have read that the adverse effects of the 'vaccines' were being transmitted from vaccinated women, to unvaccinated women. This excerpt from page 69 of Pfizer's documentation may explain the reports I've read.Pfizer's documentations explains that 'occupational exposure' (to the vax) could occur if some people come into contact with a trial participant, which may or may not result in an adverse event (for the unvaxxed) and if an AE should occur, the data is to be kept outside the study report.I suspect this is a feature, not a bug, in case people rejected the vaccine....

A Christian pastor in the UK was arrested by police after a member of the public reported him for the “homophobic” comment of saying that marriage was between a man and a woman. Yes, really. The incident occurred outside Uxbridge Station in west London. A video clip shows the elderly pastor being confronted by police and forcefully handcuffed before being led away. “I wasn’t making any homophobic comments, I was just defining marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman. I was only saying what the Bible says – I wasn’t wanting to hurt anyone or cause offence,”...

A woman in Las Vegas was arrested after she was found naked and passed out in her car. It turns out, the woman was Feven Kiflegiorgis, Fox 5 Las Vegas’ morning weekday anchor. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Kiflegiorgis, who is known as Feven Kay, was busted nude and asleep behind the wheel of her Audi at about 7:30 a.m. March 20. Kiflegiorgis said she could not remember how she got to the location where she was found. The report didn’t explain why she was fully naked either.

Twitter took enforcement action on Thursday morning to block a racist trending topic that disparaged U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) after he delivered the GOP response to President Joe Biden's first address to a joint session of Congress. During his rebuttal Wednesday evening, Scott declared that "America is not a racist country" and condemned divisive rhetoric on race in politics. He said that he's experienced intolerance even from self-proclaimed liberals and progressives who have called him an "Uncle Tom" or used slurs like the n-word to attack him. "I have experienced the pain of discrimination," Scott said. "I know what...

Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten tore into the Democratic Party and said the “collapse” of America is happening because of Joe Biden’s “nonsense.” “You have a Democrat party that doesn’t respect anything but the latest woke fashion trend and that’s to the destruction of America,” Rotten told the UK Times in a recent interview. Born Johnny Lydon in Britain, Rotten, became American citizen in 2013. Speaking bluntly of Joe Biden, the “Anarchy in the UK” singer said “I’m watching America now collapse because of the Biden nonsense.” Lyndon scoffed at the Democrat and “mainstream media” accusation that the GOP is...