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- Leaders of the U.S. and Russian navies met in Moscow Tuesday to discuss air-to-air intercepts in international airspace and interactions between the two nations' ships, the Navy said. The Prevention of Incidents On and Over the Waters Outside the Limits of the Territorial Sea (INCSEA) is an annual event held to discuss the Incidents at Sea Agreement the two countries signed in 1972. That agreement "codified the mutual interest of both sides in promoting safety of navigation and safety of flight when operating on and over international waters," and specified annual consultations should be held to review compliance with...

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell made a massive announcement this week about election fraud. While joining host Steve Bannon on The War Room podcast Tuesday morning, Lindell said he will present a ‘Royal Flush’ of voter fraud evidence to Supreme Court by July. LINDELL: “Well, it’s a big announcement this morning. I’ve got a team of lawyers, we’re going after Dominion and we’re going after — for free speech. Alan Dershowitz told me that this will be one of the biggest cases, if not the biggest case in history for free speech, for the First Amendment. And they were going to...

Lakers star LeBron James has added his voice to those in the NBA urging Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, calling Floyd a man who “literally changed the world.’ Following Tuesday’s playoff game between the Lakers and the Phoenix Suns, James was asked about his impression of the police reform bill being pushed by the Democrats in Washington. In reply, James said the bill has his “full support” and that he feels it would change “the landscape of how policing is modified, how policing is looked at.”

ROMA, Texas (Reuters) - Among the hundreds of Central American migrants crossing the Rio Grande river daily on rafts from Mexico to Texas, dozens stood out on a recent day. They were generally taller and some wore skirts, stylish shoes and tracksuits, while many of the other migrants wore T-shirts, pants and jeans. U.S. border patrol officers who apprehended them near the river tried to speak to them in Spanish. There was a pause as some of the border crossers explained in broken English that they were Romanians, a Reuters photographer said. Scores of Romanians who are part of the...

Ron DeSantis announced this week that Florida would no longer accept Joe Biden's federal unemployment benefit boost, making it the 23rd state to stop doling out the $300 per week payment to jobless citizens. The states, all run by Republican governors, argue that there are plenty of jobs available – and that the boosted benefits disincentivize their constituents to go back to work because they make more sitting and home and collecting. Floridians will no longer be eligible to receive the weekly Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation starting June 27, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) announced Monday.

Democrats are starting to freak out about the election audits. The Associated Press published a report about how Democrats are freaking out about election audits expanding to several states. “This is bad enough to see it happen once,” Eddie Perez, an expert on voting systems at the OSET Institute, said of Arizona, but seeing it elsewhere in the country is “dangerous for democracy.’”

President Joe Biden mistakenly blamed the “Tuskegee airmen” training program for fueling black American hesitancy about the coronavirus vaccine. “By the way, many of the older members of that community had memories of experimentation on black Americans that were not told about, like what happened, with the, you know, Tuskegee airmen and all those tests,” Biden said. “And so there was a great reluctance.”

Hey, if CNN's Chris Cuomo can advise his beleaguered brother Andrew on how to wriggle out of multiple scandals, why shouldn't a CNN reporter debate Republicans in the parking lot? And then be hailed as presidential timber? On Wednesday morning's New Day, after a long clip was aired of CNN reporter Kyung Lah grilling Republican Karen Fann, president of the Arizona state senate, regarding the Maricopa County 2020 presidential election recount, a thrilled John Berman enthused: "First of all, Kyung Lah for president, right? I’ll chair that committee right now. That was a terrific interview." Get the rest of the...

After cancelling an investigation by the Trump administration into the origins of Wuhan coronavirus, deferring to the corrupt World Health Organization and the Chinese Communist Party, President Joe Biden announced Wednesday he has directed the U.S. intelligence community to "double their efforts" to get to the bottom of how the pandemic started. [Biden statement:] "I have now asked the Intelligence Community to redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion, and to report back to me in 90 days. As part of that report, I have asked for areas of further...

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A gunman opened fire on a union meeting at a train yard close to San Jose’s airport Wednesday morning — leaving at least eight people dead and “multiple people” injured, according to officials and reports. The suspect, believed to be a 50-year-old male, attacked the VTA Light Rail Facility on West Younger Avenue around 6:30 a.m. local time during a union gathering and then killed himself, according to the Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office and the Los Angeles Times, which cited law enforcement sources.

The feud between Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and the radically liberal late night host Jimmy Kimmel escalated once again this week as they traded jabs on both television and Twitter. The latest episode of this feud started when Kimmel mocked Cruz for his response to a new U.S. Army recruitment ad.

John Fredericks says Georgia officials are alleging that up to 30,000 of the ballots are fraudulent. “Six affidavits now, we had four, now it’s six. Six affidavits of veteran election officials are alleging that up to 30,000 of these 147 [thousand] ballots are fake,” said Fredericks. “Somebody printed them up on a machine and ran them through the vote counting machines. They’re not real. They’re not attached to anybody.” Another revelation was that the ballots were unfolded and printed on a different paper than the regular absentee ballots, according to Fredericks. “Number one, they’re on different paper. What kind of...

MEMORIAL OF SAINT PHILIP NERI MARK 10:32–45 Friends, in today’s Gospel, James and John ask Jesus to place them in high places in his kingdom. They are asking for two of the classic substitutes for God: power and honor. Power is not, in itself, a bad thing, and the same is true of honor. Thomas Aquinas said that honor is the flag of virtue. It’s a way of signaling to others something that’s worth noticing. So what’s the problem? The problem is that they are asking for these two things in the wrong spirit. The ego will want to use...

During the May 26, 2021, Senate Judiciary Confirmation hearings, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and ATF nominee David Chipman were in solidarity in push for “electronic traces” of firearms. Leahy jumped into the topic by complaining about laws that limit the tracing and tracking of firearms, saying, “Congress, at the behest of some in the gun lobby, prohibited the ATF from electronically searching gun sales records [even though] we have tens of millions of these records stored in metal containers in parking lots.”

Some of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged co-conspirators are set to testify against Ghislaine Maxwell in her trial later this year, court documents suggest. Prosecutors said in a filing that the material for the trial includes 'any co-conspirator statements', a major sign that one of Epstein's inner circle has turned state's witness. Prosecutors said that nine weeks before the trial, which is set to begin in November, they would turn over to the defense 'the identity of any unindicted co-conspirator' they plan to call to give evidence. A separate filing from Maxwell seeking dismissal of the case says that one accuser was...

Mild cases of COVID-19 leave people with long-term antibody protection against reinfection, according to a new study that challenges previous findings. "Last fall, there were reports that antibodies wane quickly after infection with the virus that causes COVID-19, and mainstream media interpreted that to mean that immunity was not long-lived," said study senior author Ali Ellebedy, an associate professor of pathology and immunology, medicine and molecular microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

A bill expected to soon be signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott will allow police to charge protesters with a felony if they are accused of obstructing emergency vehicles when blocking the street. House Bill 9, which passed in both bodies of the Texas Legislature on Monday, would make blocking an emergency vehicle a state-jail felony punishable by up to two years in jail. It also requires anyone who receives probation for blocking a roadway to serve at least 10 days in jail. ...Abbott tweeted his support for the bill Saturday. "Peaceful protest doesn’t include blocking roadways and preventing...

I hear what you’re saying. You still have hope and faith in President Trump and are waiting for him to come back. Please take a moment and kindly consider my perspective: President Trump waited for the police to stop the BLM antifa communist riots in 2020 but in most cases they didn’t do anything. He gave control of the economy to the very doctors who developed and leaked the communist China virus. He didn’t do anything to stop them, to this day he still stands behind the warp speed emergency authorization experimental vaccine that’s injuring and killing people. He waited...

The Green Youth has called for children to be able to vote in elections in the future. “Voting is a basic democratic right. This must apply to all people. Democracy means that you have a say in your own living conditions. We believe that it is wrong to legally deny a certain group this across the board,” said the spokesman for the Green Youth, Georg Kurz. Green Youth leader Georg Kurz. Facebook The Green offspring therefore strives to ensure that under 16s are also allowed to vote reported German magazine Spiegel Online. “The limit of 16 years is also set...