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The US economy added 266,000 jobs in April, a huge miss of the median estimate of 1 million new payrolls. The unemployment rate rose to 6.1% from 6%, while economists had expected it to drop to 5.8%. The payrolls increase marks a fourth straight monthly gain, but the smallest since January.

The U.S. economy gained a disappointing 266,000 jobs last month, despite widespread forecasts that predicted a number that would top 1 million, according to the latest monthly employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate rose from 6 percent to 6.1 percent, contrary to expectations but still down from a historic peak of 14.8 percent last April, the highest level since the Great Depression. The highly anticipated monthly jobs report was expected to show strong payroll growth, with some analysts even predicting job gains beyond the 2 million mark, after widespread vaccinations spurred Americans to dine out,...

On the surface, Joe Biden seems to be doing pretty well. But underneath, there are signs of problems, areas where partisan overstretch threatens the underpinnings of what some are hailing as the new order of things. Joe Biden enjoys a 54% average job approval rating, a good mark for a president midterm or facing reelection but below the 100-day numbers of every post-World War II president except Donald Trump. Biden's 42% disapproval is higher than theirs and about equal to Trump's. That may understate things if, as The Cook Political Report's Amy Walter suggests, polls are undersampling Republican voters. The...

CNN, New Day, Friday, May 7, 2021, around 8:50am. "Week That Was" Among the CNN talking points wrapped into "events/facts", Brianna Keilar said these words: "Republicans say Biden isn't bipartisan enough." The word "enough" is key. It's a lie. As if GOP say he is bipartisan 'AT ALL.'

History only provides lessons when it is taught straight up, without a chaser.When that’s no longer done all the old ‘isms’ tend to repeat themselves, often re-branded and decked out in the most au courant finery, but always the same old utopian ideology at the core. And unless thwarted early-on always, always with the same ending: genocide followed by dystopia.On it’s face it it would seem infeasible for history to be so systematically erased while at the same time being simultaneously repeated: in fact it is not a coincidence, it is a necessity. History must be obscured if you wish...

.. J E S U S I N … T H E T E M P L E , T E A C H I N G . L U K E .. 2 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . Resources to CLICK: To read LUKE 2 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or JohnHarmony of the Gospels 7 A. D. Bible Timeline. LUKE, Chapter 2 41 Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the...

CNN political commentator Ana Navarro said Thursday on “Tonight” that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) was likely being removed from her House Republican Conference chairmanship because her colleagues were “embarrassed” that she showed them to be “a bunch of eunuchs on their knees worshipping at the altar of Donald Trump.” Navarro said, “This is not about right or left. This is about right or wrong. This is about truth or Trump. This is about convictions or conspiracies. I’m going to tell you something I just want to get off my chest that I’m so disgusted by, so disgusted by two women...

"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," is an insight the famed biographer James Boswell attributed to Samuel Johnson. Clients of the late Bernie Madoff, however, might take issue. Over four decades, Madoff, acclaimed as the greatest fraudster of them all, ran a Ponzi scheme that swindled 40,000 people, including his closest friends, out of $65 billion. But if "getting money" is among the most innocent of callings, America has more than its fair share of the goodly people who excel at it. According to Forbes's 35th annual ranking of...

Call The Midwife star Jenny Agutter is set to reprise her role in The Railway Children sequel - over 50 years after starring in the original film. The actress, 68, was just 16 when she played Bobbie Waterbury in the 1968 BBC series, before going on to star in the 1970 film version at 18-years-old.

Fans hit out yesterday after the Three Lions were dropped in favour of a lion, lioness and cub to show 'the true diversity' of English football. The rebranding was dubbed 'PC nonsense' by some on social media, with others asking 'Who's offended by a lion?' Football Association bosses insisted the badge will help increase grassroots participation by symbolising 'progression' and 'inclusivity'.

Scam Involving Purported Suspicious Bank Account Activity September 2020 The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has become aware of a new scam in which fraudsters claiming to be from the Federal Reserve contact the public through unsolicited phone calls and emails. The fraudsters falsely state there has been suspicious activity in a bank account ,,,, They will try to instill fear, possibly by stating there is an arrest warrant for the account holder and claiming that the account holder needs to speak with a Federal Reserve officer immediately.

The National Center for Health Statistics, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention subagency, reported this week that America's fertility rate dropped for the sixth consecutive year. Total births declined by 4% in 2020, down to 1,637.5 children per 1,000 women. The statistical replacement rate for the U.S. population, by contrast, is roughly 2,100 births per 1,000 women. Overall, the 3,605,201 births last year in the U.S. represented the lowest number since the Jimmy Carter presidency. It is perhaps too early to tell whether yet another annual incremental birthrate decline is anomalous, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, or flows naturally...

Buffalo Bills GM Brandon Beane says he will cut players who refuse to be vaccinated “Yeah, I would,” Beane said. “You guys saw it in the fieldhouse. We had three and four meetings going on, and sometimes you’re talking over each other. But it was the only way to pull it off and be social distant. So it would be an advantage to cut a player and fall under that umbrella.” “I think there’s going to be some incentives. If you have X number percent of your players and staff vaccinated, you can live normal, let’s call it — back...

A 46 min video covering many topics including: -Past medications that were approved, but had long term negative effects. - Bill Gates and family history, three generations of eugenicists. - Tucker Carlson pushing the envelope at Fox News. -Rudi Giuliani FBI raid -FBI corruption. - Roger Stone FBI raid and pressure for him to turn on Trump. FBI agents now fully woke. -States moving in different directions on freedom, go to a free state before it is too late. - Many Jews in Germany and people in Bosnia saw the handwriting on the wall and got out in time. -...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and the director of the task force to reunite families said on Thursday that the Biden administration is working to reunite entire families who experienced separation under the Trump administration, meaning that not just parents but also siblings of separated children may be able to get permanent legal status in the U.S.

The Tories today started building its own 'Blue Wall' in the North East and marched further into Labour's working class heartlands across England by grabbing control of four councils and a slew of new seats from Sir Keir Starmer's struggling party. The Conservatives have taken Northumberland Council for the first time since the 1970s, which had been under no overall control but was traditionally Labour before that, as well as getting shock new councillors in traditionally left-wing communities in Sunderland and on Tyneside. After the Northumberland result came in this morning and the Tories returned an MP for Hartlepool for...

WASHINGTON, Monday, May 6. The last twenty-four hours have thoroughly contradicted the announcement of your cotemporaries, that troops were already ordered to occupy Alexandria. Like many other stories, sent from here in these exciting times, it had no basis save idle rumor, which inquiry in the proper quarters would at once have dispelled. The Zouaves would like very much to be sent on service in Virginia, and they are not unlikely to be among the first corps ordered there, when the time comes. Some of them say that the best thing to be done with themselves is to march them...

As human beings we are very visual and there is a certain demand of our flesh to see on its own terms. But of course God, who is pure spirit, will not be seen in this way.How can the human eye perceive what is spiritual? It is not designed to do so. We cannot see God, as God, any more than we should expect to be able to see justice sitting down to lunch with humility. These are not physical concepts; they are metaphysical ones. We may see evidence of their existence, but we do not physically see them. And...

President of the American Federation of Teachers Teacher Union Randi Weingarten defended indoctrinating children with Critical Race Theory on Thursday. Featured on the Black News Channel with anchor Charles Blow, Weingarten said, “All of the sudden, you’re hearing people talk about Critical Race Theory; people who have no idea what that term means.” She contended certain Americans are “trying to ban the 1619 project because it is trying to do exactly what you’re saying, which is to actually teach, uh, factual version of oppression in America, oppression of people who are in the in the indigenous nation, and oppression against...

This is a series that offers a gentle introduction to Linux for newcomers.You’ve decided that you want to try Linux but are unsure how to proceed. You are confused by the many hundreds of Linux distributions (distros) available. Which distro should you try?There is no ‘perfect distribution’ and there isn’t a magical answer to the question. It’s a decision which will depend on your requirements and personal preferences. The best way we can help is to focus on a few key considerations.Your HardwareYour hardware is an important factor when choosing a distro.Feature rich distros. Their recommended minimum system requirements are...