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Home Depot is the latest major retailer to drop its hardline mask policy, following others such as Target, Walmart, and Starbucks. Home Depot is among the latest to drop its policy requiring all customers to wear a face-covering in the stores. Per a spokesperson, fully vaccinated customers will no longer be required to wear a mask, but unvaccinated individuals “must still wear masks in Home Depot stores and in states where mask mandates remain in place, a company spokesperson for the home improvement chain told CBS MoneyWatch.” However, like other retailers, it does not appear Home Depot will ask customers...

Hunter Biden emails discuss "wealth creation" and "future earnings potential" for his father, post-public office. Mid-way through Joe Biden’s second term as vice president, his son Hunter Biden and an associate involved in Hunter’s international money-making ventures discussed plans for creating a firm that apparently would include them, Hunter’s now-deceased brother Beau, and eventually Joe Biden himself, emails reviewed by The Daily Wire show. “In order to develop this as a platform for both JRBs I think it is imperative we (the three of us) have full control come 2016 when JRB1 comes on board,” Hunter wrote to Jeff Cooper...

'Cancel rent' champion earned thousands as landlord Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.) postponed filing her 2020 financial disclosure as the liberal congresswoman faced questions about whether she made money as a landlord during the coronavirus pandemic. Pressley moved to extend her filing deadline by 90 days on April 26, just one week after the Washington Free Beacon reported that she collected up to $15,000 in rental income during a four-month period in 2019. Pressley has championed rent cancellation bills throughout the pandemic, calling such legislation "literally a matter of life and death." Months into the pandemic, Pressley and her husband...

The Chinese Communist Party has punished tens of its officials in the wake of worsening COVID-19 outbreaks across the country. It also revoked the business licenses of three clinics and their doctors on May 16 and 17.On May 17, 17 regions in northeastern China’s Liaoning Province and eastern China’s Anhui Province were designated as “medium-risk” for contracting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19.Concerned about the increase in official case reports, records showed a 13.95 million jump in doses of vaccine administered on May 16—the largest number for a single day...

After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) forcibly implemented the Hong Kong National Security Law, the education sector in the financial hub has also become a target of “rectification.” Fung Wai-wah, president of the Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union, said on his website that the push by the city’s education bureau for curriculum reform according to Beijing’s requirements, the unfair handling of complaints, and even requiring CCTV in classrooms, have increased political pressure in the education sector.On May 5, the union conducted an online survey of 1,178 secondary, primary, kindergarten, and special school teachers and principals in Hong Kong. The results...

"We are doing everything we can possibly do to take any person living in this nation off the streets," said HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge said HUD is not prioritizing U.S. citizens over illegal immigrants for public housing assistance, despite a shortage of available units in certain areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fudge announced the allocation of vouchers under President Biden's American Rescue Plan during a news conference with Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, North Carolina Democratic Rep. David Price and others. The Biden stimulus package includes $5 billion in vouchers to house homeless individuals...

A group of young men allegedly ripped off $2 million in COVID-19 relief funds by stealing personal information from people in the assistance program, funneling their money to personal bank accounts, and withdrawing the cash at banks in Brooklyn and Queens. Many of the young men flaunted their ill-gotten fortunes on social media, posting pictures of themselves with large piles of cash, court documents show. Six of the eight defendants — ranging in age from 18 to 25 — were charged Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court, documents show. Two suspects — Armani Miller, 24, and Johan Santos, 19 — are...

For many years, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) has acquiesced to digital currency operations in China. But in 2018, it began to restrict Bitcoin transactions while still secretly encouraging Bitcoin mining. However, now that large amounts of funds are fleeing the country through virtual currencies, Chinese authorities seem determined to crack down on it.Cryptocurrencies represented by Bitcoin have attracted more and more attention in recent years due to their security, privacy, and decentralization. Data shows that the unit price of Bitcoin has exceeded $60,000, but as of May 18, the unit price of Bitcoin fell to $43,300 with a market...

A New York inquiry into the Trump Organization has become a criminal investigation, according to a spokesman for New York Attorney General Letitia James. “We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature. We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA," Fabien Levy, a spokesman for James, told the Washington Examiner. James and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., have been looking for possible bank, tax, or insurance fraud by former President Donald Trump and his businesses. Trump has denied any...

The New York state attorney general's office said on Tuesday it has told the Trump Organization its investigation of the company run by former President Donald Trump is now a criminal probe, not purely civil. "We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature," spokesman Fabien Levy said in a statement. "We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA," he said. (This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

A group of congressmen are looking into the University of Virginia (UVA).In April, I covered the story of Kieran Bhattacharya, a medical student who allegedly got a little too curious.In October 2018, Kieran attended a UVA panel discussion covering microaggressions.During a Q&A segment, he asked as follows:“Thank you for your presentation. I had a few questions, just to clarify your definition of microaggressions. Is it a requirement, to be a victim of microaggression, that you are a member of a marginalized group?”Presenter and Assistant Dean Beverly Cowell replied that it wasn’t a necessity.Yet — as Kieran observed — a slide...

Biden should reflect on his own record – past and present – before falsely attributing to all of America the racism that stains his own soul. Biden was “an architect of multiple federal laws in the 1980s and ’90s that disproportionately jailed Black people and contributed to what many people see as systemic racism." today’s social justice warrior against “systemic racism” sitting in the Oval Office once aligned himself with Southern Democrat racists in the Senate to slow school desegregation. Psaki is telling us to overlook Biden’s role as a principal architect of the 1994 crime bill that resulted in...

Hello FReepers. I am curious about your favorite folder knife. I'm looking for recommendations from people who carry for every day use. Preferably made in the USA and want to stay under $100 but will consider higher.Do not want a cheap stainless blade. Need something that sharpens to shaving level.Thank-you in advance.

Imagine if Donald Trump had jokingly threatened to murder journalists standing in front of him. They probably wouldn't have laughed. Yet that’s what Joe Biden did on Tuesday and the assembled reporters just chuckled at the funny threat. While test driving an electric Ford F-150, ABC's Cecilia Vega broke up the adoring queries about the car by actually asking, “Mr. President, can I ask you a quick question about Israel before you drive away since it’s so important?”Biden, who was sitting in a truck at the time, sneered, “No, you can’t. Not unless you get in front of the car...

Police have been conducting a manhunt for hours now in Limburg, searching for a heavily armed man who made threats against virologist Marc Van Ranst. The suspect is a professional soldier from the barracks of Peutie, said to be armed with a rocket launcher, a machine gun and an ordinary pistol. The manhunt started earlier in the day in Leopoldsburg, but has since been extended northwards in the province. Van Ranst and his family have been taken to an undisclosed safe location until the man is taken into police custody. “That person has apparently moved around,” Erik Cenens of the...

A squall was passing over the Seacor Power in the Gulf of Mexico, the wind pounded and visibility from the wheelhouse of the massive lift boat had dimmed when a decision was made, three hours after leaving Port Fourchon on April 13, to drop its massive legs and anchor them to the seafloor. The emergency plan was to raise the deck above the rising sea and wait out a storm that was much more powerful than forecast, according to an early assessment of the tragedy released Tuesday by federal regulators. "When the legs began to descend, the crewmember at the...

Conservatives are learning the hard way that joking about union organizing is no laughing matter. Commentator Ben Shapiro’s tongue-in-cheek tweet last year about striking employees spurred a federal complaint that touched off a seven-month investigation by the National Labor Relations Board, which ultimately dismissed the matter in a decision announced Monday. What was the tweet? Referring to Spotify staffers threatening to strike over comedian Joe Rogan’s show, Mr. Shapiro, founder of The Daily Wire, tweeted, “I have a message for DW employees. If you ever try anything like this, you can consider your strike permanent.” “NLRB’s dismissal of these frivolous...

In a world in which massive violations of human rights have, tragically, become the norm, why has the hard left focused on one of the least compelling of those causes — namely, the Palestinians? Where is the concern for the Kurds, the Chechens, the Uyghurs, the Tibetans? There are no campus demonstrations on their behalf, no expressions of concern by “the Squad” in Congress, no United Nations resolutions, no recurring op-eds in The New York Times, and no claims that the nations that oppress these groups have no right to exist. The Kurds have never been offered independence or statehood,...

- Thousands of Palestinians fled their homes so as not to serve as human shields for terrorist operatives In one case Palestinian children were killed and Hamas claimed it was an attack by the Air Force while the defense establishment claimed that a human rights organization report saud it was a rocket fall...