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Joe Biden pushed for ‘more’ to be done Wednesday after California’s stringent gun controls failed to prevent the San Jose attack. Biden has been pushing for an “assault weapons” ban, universal background checks, red flag laws, and a host of other gun controls during the past two months. California has an “assault weapons” ban, universal background checks, a red flag law, a 10-day waiting period on gun sales, a limit on the number of guns a law-abiding citizen can purchase in a month, a “good cause” requirement for concealed carry permit issuance, and numerous other guns controls, as well as...

Attorney Benjamin Crump and members of George Floyd's family met on Tuesday with President Joe Biden, ostensibly to talk about what Crump calls the "George Floyd Justice and Policin' Act." "The president was very personal," Crump told reporters afterward, "because he got to know this family over the years." Crump did not say how many years ago Biden first met the Floyds, but he can be forgiven for this miscue in that he usually makes even less sense than Biden. If, however, Crump bragged to the president about how he cleverly framed George Zimmerman in the 2012 Florida death of...

LeBron James is calling for more player protection in the NBA. After Wizards point guard Russell Westbrook was doused with popcorn by a Sixers fan attending Game 2 in Philadelphia on Wednesday night, James took to Twitter to sound off about the situation. “By the way WE AS THE PLAYERS wanna see who threw that popcorn on Russ while he was leaving the game tonight with a injury!! There’s cameras all over arenas so there’s no excuse! Cause if the [shoe] was on the other [foot],” the Lakers star tweeted, with the hashtag “ProtectOurPlayers.”

He told reporters that she 'threw her arms around me, gave me a big hug' and 'wanted to sit on my lap' when she walked into the Oval Office on the anniversary of her father's death. She then told the president: 'I'm really hungry. Do you have any snacks?' 'My wife [Jill] would kill me - we gave her some ice cream, she had some Cheetos and I think she had some chocolate milk,' he said before boarding Marine One for a trip to Wilmington for a funeral for his longtime aide Norma Long.

China's population is growing at the slowest pace in decades. That's according to the latest census data out this morning. There are currently 1.4 billion people living in China. That's just over 5 -percent more than a decade ago. But what has many in Beijing worried: the birth rate remains weak and the population is getting older. The number of Chinese citizens between 15 and 59 has dropped by 7 percent, while the number of people over 60 continues to rise. A demographic shift like this is likely to have significant economic and political implications for the world's second biggest...

You see what's happening here, right? One of the singular most problematic items cited by BLM is the 1994 Crime Bill. Here's an example of what they say and how it hurts minorities from the Center for American Progress. Who gave us this bill? Progressives did. Then Senator Joe Biden was even the bill's sponsor. But Progressivism can't blame itself, so it has to create a myth and campaign against it. You can pick nearly any big city you want that's been ravaged by decades of progressive mayors. The inner cities are glittering examples of racial inequities. Chicago is one...

'I just thought that Philly was different,' said Steve Jamison, owner of Blue Sole Shoes. 'I thought we would respond in a different way.'PHILADELPHIA, P.A. — A men’s shoes and accessories store in Center City, Philadelphia was looted last summer during the Black Lives Matter riots. Owner Steve Jamison, a black man who started Blue Sole Shoes in 2007, did not see it coming. “I just thought that Philly was different,” he told me. “I thought we would respond in a different way.” Jamison was at home when people first broke into his store on May 31. His alarm company...

No Republican political family has been as tormented by Donald Trump as the Bush dynasty. Now Trump has one more opportunity to twist the knife, as George P. Bush — the last remaining Bush in public office — prepares to launch a primary challenge Wednesday against Texas GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton. In what’s expected to be a brutal contest pitting the Bush family scion against a scandal-plagued incumbent, Trump’s endorsement will go a long way toward determining the winner. The former president remains popular with the Texas Republican base — so popular that Bush, Jeb Bush’s son and currently...

BRUSSELS, May 26 (Reuters) - The Belgian government said on Wednesday it was suspending vaccinations with Johnson & Johnson's Janssen COVID-19 vaccine for people under the age of 41 following the death of a woman from severe side-effects after she was administered the jab. "The Inter-ministerial conference has decided to temporarily administer Janssen's vaccine to the general population from the age of 41 years, pending a more detailed benefit-risk analysis by the EMA," the Belgian health ministers said in a statement. The EMA is the European Union's European Medicine's Agency. There was no immediate comment from J&J. The woman -...

An Atlanta city councilman who voted to defund the police has had his car stolen by children in broad daylight, according to reports. The kids jumped in Councilman Antonio Brown's car and took off while he was attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony at an event in northeast Atlanta.

'It was a pay-to-play scheme, where in exchange for taking this money, the CTCL gets to tell them how to run the election — and it will happen again in 2022.'This article was originally published by RealClearInvestigations on May 26, 2021. In the months leading up to November’s election, voting officials in major cities and counties worked with a progressive group funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and its allies to create ballots, strategically target voters, and develop “cure” letters in situations where mail-in ballots were in danger of being tossed out. The Center for Tech and Civic Life, or...

Indian police have arrested a YouTuber for tying helium balloons to his pet dog "in an attempt to make it fly". Gaurav Sharma, 32, shot a video showing his dog attached to balloons, which he then lets go off as the pet starts to fly in the air. A few seconds later, someone in the balcony of the second floor of a building catches the dog. Mr Sharma said he followed all safety measures, but deleted the video after social media backlash.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — NAACP, state and local officials on Wednesday denounced what they called continued racism at an Amazon warehouse construction site in Connecticut where eight nooses have been found within a month, despite additional security measures added last weekend. The latest noose was found at the site in Windsor on Wednesday morning, the day of a scheduled meeting between workers and NAACP officials about safety and security, said Connecticut NAACP President Scot X. Esdaile. “We have a serious problem in America and it hasn’t gone away,” Esdaile said. “It's deplorable. It’s sickening. It’s a sick mindset that Black...

A suspected armed robber is behind bars after investigators say his alleged getaway driver led police right to his front door. Travis Chisolm and Terrence White were arrested by CMPD in February, charged with armed robberies on back-to-back days. White, according to the FBI, was wearing his electronic ankle monitor during both robberies.

Councilman Antonio Brown was attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony at an event in northeast Atlanta around noon when at least four kids jumped into his car and took off, FOX 5 of Atlanta reported. "You don’t immediately think, ‘Oh, these kids are going to steal my car,’" Brown said, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Last year, he voted in support of an ordinance to withhold $73 million from the budget of the Atlanta Police Department. The ordinance was narrowly voted down. Brown said the thieves jumped in his vehicle Wednesday after he got out to speak with community leader Ben Norman....

The visible surface of the Sun, or the photosphere, is around 6,000°C. But a few thousand kilometers above it – a small distance when we consider the size of the Sun – the solar atmosphere, also called the corona, is hundreds of times hotter, reaching a million degrees celsius or higher. This spike in temperature, despite the increased distance from the Sun’s main energy source, has been observed in most stars, and represents a fundamental puzzle that astrophysicists have mulled over for decades. In 1942, the Swedish scientist Hannes Alfvén proposed an explanation. He theorized that magnetized waves of plasma...

The Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm this week sold her holding in electric bus maker Proterra, according to a report. Granholm’s stock sale comes after she previously received an ethics waiver to dump the massive holding and hearing pushback from Republicans demanding an investigation into her investment and alleged ongoing connection with the company.

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo said Wednesday on “Cuomo Prime Time” that former President Donald Trump and his supporters “were wrong before they were right on China” after revelations that three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November 2019, months before China announced the COVID-19 pandemic. Cuomo said, “Ninety days is a new deadline set by President Biden for the United States intelligence agencies and all the assets to get answers on the genesis of COVID-19. What’s the problem? The problem is China won’t comply in the effort. So how can we discover if they don’t let...

More than half of the people currently employed in the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry could by 2030 be working on low-carbon energy projects, research from Robert Gordon University in Scotland has suggested. According to the research, the great majority of these jobs will go from oil and gas into offshore wind farms. The British offshore wind energy is the largest in the world, the report noted, and could employ up to 90,000 people by 2030. Another 40,000 jobs will be created in other low-carbon energy segments of the industry, including hydrogen production as well as carbon capture and...

Kids chanting to a bloodthirsty deity or getting secret sex changes? The Golden State says why notSACRAMENTO -- The state capitol has been overwhelmed this year with the number of harmful bills being introduced by California legislators. The California Family Council opposes 19 bills that either threaten the unborn, parental rights, freedom of speech and religion, or encourage racism, drug abuse, sex trafficking and assisted suicide. The bills that the CFC supported this year to promote religious liberty, provide sex education transparency and protect children from sex abusers are dead or pushed off until next year. Most of the 19...