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White House press secretary Jen Psaki incorrectly claimed that “a number of officers” died on Jan. 6 during the Capitol riots, at a White House press briefing on Thursday. “Obviously, the president’s view is that there were a number of officers who lost their lives, paid a tremendous sacrifice, on a day that will be a stain on our democracy for many years to come, and certainly, many who survived,” Psaki said. “This will be a long-lasting trauma. I’d have to check on the letter and the status of that.”...

Sailing through the smooth waters of vacuum, a photon of light moves at around 300 thousand kilometers (186 thousand miles) a second. This sets a firm limit on how quickly a whisper of information can travel anywhere in the Universe. While this law isn't likely to ever be broken, there are features of light which don't play by the same rules. Manipulating them won't hasten our ability to travel to the stars, but they could help us clear the way to a whole new class of laser technology. Physicists have been playing hard and fast with the speed limit of...

Rochelle Walensky, Joe Biden’s CDC Director, was forced to confess that the COVID-19 virus may have been leaked from a Wuhan lab. In other words, they are finally admitting what most of us have known all along. Senator John F. Kennedy pressed Walensky to look into “other possibilities” after he declared that most coronaviruses are of “animal origin.” [video] This comes after a Chinese professor with strong ties to China’s Communist government proclaimed that COVID-19 pandemic was a biological weapon created by China. Last week, an open letter signed by a group of the world’s leading scientists urged further investigation...

On 1 December, 1948, the man’s body was found on Somerton Beach in South Australia with the circumstances of his death remaining an open police investigation. The Somerton man was first found by passers-by who noticed him slumped against a seawall. The cause of death remains unknown and many theories have been advanced over his identity, ranging from a jilted lover to a Cold War spy. An initial police investigation and coronial inquest left the matter unresolved, with the case particularly mystifying because of a number of items found with the body. They included a suitcase, items of clothing with...

Federal firearm background checks have continued to climb in 2021, nearing 16 million in the first fourth months alone and marking a 30 percent increase from the same period last year. The increase in background checks suggests the United States is on track for another record year of gun sales.According to FBI statistics, 4,317,804 background checks were conducted in January, 3,442,777 in February, 4,691,738 in March, and 3,514,070 in April — totaling 15,966,389 in the first four months of 2021.The number of background checks performed does not necessarily equal the number of firearms purchased in instances where a background check...

Carnival Alaska Deployment Update Carnival Corporation announced late on Thursday it intends to have three ships from three brands sailing in Alaska starting in July as part of its restart plan and return to cruising with Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises and Holland America Line. Cruises will leave from Seattle on round-trip itineraries available to fully vaccinated guests only. Here are the details: Carnival Miracle Carnival Cruise Line Ship: Carnival Miracle Built: 2004 Occupancy at 100 Percent: 2,900 Guests First Cruise: July 27 Details: Weekly departures through September 14 with Carnival Miracle. There are seven 7-day cruises featuring calls in...

LISTEN: Palestinian Tells Israeli Soldier ‘If Children Need to Die, Then They’ll Die’ posted by Hannity Staff - 5.20.21 Leaked audio surfaced on social media Thursday that allegedly reveals a conversation between members of the Israeli military asking Palestinians to evacuate a building targeted for destruction, with the Gaza Man responding “we want to die.” “I can’t get all of the people out. I need at least two hours to get them out,” the man tells the IDF official.

Tragically, women in the film industry sometimes resort to the same numbing strategies as women in the porn industry, like the use of drugs and alcohol. Kiera Knightley said that she downed “a couple of shots of vodka – definitely -- beforehand.” Jennifer Lawrence said, “I got really, really drunk. But then that led to more anxiety.” Salma Hayek confessed, “I had to take a tranquilizer, which eventually stopped the crying but made the vomiting worse.” Most of us assume that actresses sign up for on-screen sex and nudity with eyes wide open but, in reality, they often have no...

President Joe Biden argued in an interview published Friday he was not a socialist despite his massive $6 trillion plan to redistribute wealth in America. “The progressives don’t like me because I’m not prepared to take on what I would say and they would say is a socialist agenda,” Biden said in an interview with New York Times columnist David Brooks.

The Pennsylvania House Health Committee held a hearing Tuesday on the University of Pittsburgh’s experimentation with aborted fetuses, including experiments grafting aborted baby scalps onto mice. Pitt denies that the aborted fetuses are supplied by a local Planned Parenthood, and that their research is funded by taxpayer dollars, but Tuesday’s hearing featured witnesses testifying otherwise.In the fall of 2020, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh published a study titled, “Development of humanized mouse and rat models with full-thickness human skin and autologous immune cells.” In studying how organs reacted to pathogens or infections on human skin, researchers grafted “full-thickness human...

As IHOP announced that flip’d by IHOP will be opening this summer, the highly anticipated pancake bowls will be joining the menu. While the “bowl” isn’t a new concept, a pancake bowl could replace those baked oats, pancake cereal and a variety of other food trends. Ready to get a taste of one? According to IHOP, the Signature Pancake Bowls will feature the brand’s world-famous Buttermilk Pancakes. Those pancakes will be topped with a variety of mix-ins plus real whipped butter. It will be interesting to see what mix-ins will be available. While some people will want some fruit...

The bad news for liberals arrived on the front page of the May 18 Washington Post under the mild-mannered headline "Hopes dim for Democrats' bills on election oversight." That's a nicer headline than "It's Toast." Mike DeBonis began by reporting that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has approached the For the People Act that would federalize elections with the motto "Failure is not an option." DeBonis wasn't as dainty as the headline writer: "But failure is very much an option -- it is, in fact, the most likely one." There is one central figure in this bill's demise. Inside, The...

Texas Second Amendment supporters have been working hard to pass Constitutional Carry in Texas for several years. The leadership of the Texas Republicans has been hostile to the idea, even though Constitutional Carry was one of the top planks in the Texas Republican Party platform. Changes in leadership, by resignation or removal in primaries, made passage plausible in 2021. A new Republican Party Chairman, Allen West, pushed hard for passage. Speaker of the House, Dade Phelan supported it. It passed the house, 84 to 56 in mid-April. Lt. Governor Dan Patrick (who controls the Texas Senate) and Governor Greg Abbot...

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Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 71Psalm 71 1 In you, Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame. 2 In your righteousness, rescue me and deliver me; turn your ear to me and save me. 3 Be my rock of refuge, to which I can always go; give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. 4 Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of those who are evil and cruel. 5 For you have been my hope, Sovereign Lord, my confidence since...

Massive government spending has decreased the value of the American dollar and triggered increased consumer prices, which economic experts said will only get worse. “Over the past few months, we have seen an inflation rate that is much higher than where we’ve become accustomed to,” Heritage Foundation research fellow Joel Griffith told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Peter Schiff, the chief economist and global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital, said there will be “massive inflation,” which will negatively impact Americans’ standard of living. The price of food, particularly wholesale pork and poultry, gasoline, steel, copper, home appliances, lumber and many...

During a discussion of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) banning mask mandates in the state’s public schools on Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” host Chris Cuomo lamented that “people are still fighting the science” in some states. After Brown University School of Public Health Dean Dr. Ashish Jha argued against Texas’ ban on the mask mandates, Cuomo asked, “How much progress are we making if people are still fighting the science at the state level?”

The series, titled “Let’s Learn,” features a drag queen going by the name “Lil Miss Hot Mess.” The drag queen, née Harris David Harris, is a media personality from San Francisco, California, and bills himself as one of the first drag queens to host a reading hour for kids.

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Los Angeles police are investigating a potential link between two antisemitic attacks this week in a heavily Jewish neighborhood of the city, authorities said Thursday. The violence in the city’s Fairfax District both involved vehicles flying Palestinian flags, according to witnesses and video.