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Gasoline prices are the highest for a Memorial Day holiday weekend since 2014. Prices are expected to range around $3 and stay elevated through the summer, as Americans get on the road resuming normal activities and taking driving holidays. The Colonial Pipeline outage earlier this month is over, but there are still some areas with short supplies. Nevertheless, drivers should still be able to fill up over the long weekend. Gasoline prices are expected to be the highest for a Memorial Day weekend in seven years, and prices could stay elevated all summer, as Americans take to the road in...

The Associated Press (AP) tried to run cover for President Joe Biden by gaslighting readers on his role in rising gas prices. AP ran another one of its useless “fact-checks” headlined, “AP FACT CHECK: House GOP falsely blames Biden for gas prices.” The piece railed that “Biden's policies aren't behind the price increases.” It continued: “Gas prices are up because of a rapid and unexpected bounce-back in demand, and because of lingering problems from the forced shutdown early this month of the Colonial Pipeline, which provides 45% of the fuel consumed on the East Coast.” It’s too bad for AP...

Exclusive DailyMail.com photos show an influx of homeless people on the streets as Manhattan struggles to get back on its feet after the coronavirus pandemic cut off its lifeline of tourism The pandemic upped the ante on homelessness, mental illness and crime - particularly random assaults and stabbings as homeless men and women are seen strung out on the streets In 2021, almost every type of violent crime is on the rise in New York CityAccording to recent figures from Compstat, the NYPD's data gathering unit, crime is up 30 percent city wide Still, city officials are optimistic, 'The ship...

A Russian spy ship parked in international waters off Kauai for several days has delayed a Missile Defense Agency missile test, officials said. U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor said in a statement that it “is aware of the Russian vessel operating in international waters in the vicinity of Hawaii, and will continue to track it through the duration of its time here. Through maritime patrol aircraft, surface ships and joint capabilities, we can closely monitor all vessels in the Indo-Pacific area of operations.” It was not immediately clear if the Russian vessel is broadcasting an automatic identification system, or...

The updated number of deaths following 'vaccination' as of May 24 is 4863. VAERS is months behind publishing data and caught deleting data as always! 05/26/2021 (bitchute.com)Throttling and deleting reports is the theme of this video. Let's take a look at the 57 deleted ID#s of which 8 were deaths, 5 were permanent disabilities, 10 life threatening, 20 hospitalizations, and 7 ER visits.He has many good videos. In his May 14 update he demonstrated that VAERS has not uploaded (published) the majority of the recors they've received. About half (still) are from Dec/January during the time that only 36 million...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California is giving away the country’s largest pot of vaccine prize money, $116.5 million, in an attempt to get millions more inoculated before the most populous U.S. state fully reopens next month. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced the prizes, which also include the nation's highest single vaccine prize: $1.5 million. California's reopening is pegged for June 15, and on that day a drawing will be held to award 10 vaccinated people the top prize . Another 30 people will win $50,000 each, with those drawings starting June 4. Anyone 12 and older who has received...

Berlin Builds Rome-Backed Interfaith ShrineJewish-Muslim-Christian temple heralds Pope Francis' 'Abrahamic House' BERLIN (ChurchMilitant.com) - In a historic first Thursday, a coalition of Jews, Christians and Muslims laid the foundation stone of a 47-million-euro interfaith shrine on the ruins of the 12th century St. Peter's Catholic Church in Berlin.A model of the interfaith House of One in Berlin Hailed by the Vatican as a "house of prayer bringing the three world religions together under one roof," but slammed by faithful Catholics as "gnostic" and "syncretistic," the House of One anticipates Pope Francis' own pet project of an Abrahamic House.The federal and...

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) is the latest Republican governor to follow the science with mask mandates. After banning state-mandated vaccine passports in his state, the Georgia Republican announced that he would prohibit public schools from mandating that students, teachers, and staff wear masks. “We’re not going to have a mask mandate for our kids. Our teachers have had the ability to get vaccinated. It certainly doesn’t keep anyone from wearing a mask. If parents want their kids to wear a mask, if teachers want to wear a mask if they haven’t been vaccinated, or even if they have, they...

Mayor Lightfoot introduced an amendment Wednesday that would permanently ban Chicago stores from selling beer, wine and other alcoholic drinks after 10 p.m. In April 2020, Lightfoot instituted the controversial 9 p.m. liquor curfew in Chicago to prevent residents from gathering outside during the coronavirus pandemic. Stores had been allowed to stay open until 2 a.m. most days and 3 a.m. Saturdays before the pandemic. The city revived the early curfew in October to combat a second wave of COVID-19 cases. Now, as Chicago enters the final phase of the COVID-19 reopening plan, Lightfoot wants to make the 10 p.m....

You’ve probably seen this trend before, some tool-bag driving around in a slammed E36 M3 with a European plate, that probably isn’t even from Germany, that says “D33z Nüt5” or something equally idiotic. It’s a big scene in America, to buy a European car, make it worse by putting it on cheap lowered suspension bought on eBay, slapping “Illest” stickers on it and throwing a European license plate on it so that people know its European. As if people didn’t already know that BMW, Volkswagen and Audi were from Europe. Doug Demuro, the guy on Jalopnik with the crazy cars,...

FLORENCE, SC- Thanks to a 72-year-old Army veteran, a suspect that the Florence County Sheriff Deputies have been searching for since Friday, May 21st has now been taken into custody. According to reports, John Earl, the Army veteran said that he was at home when the suspect ran through his backyard on Saturday morning, May 22nd. Early said that he tried to ask the man why he was running, but that the suspect just pushed him away. After the suspect pushed him away, Earl took down the suspect, hogtied him, and called the sheriff’s office. Many would call what Earl...

WAUWATOSA, WI- A Wisconsin state representative who marched with a mob of protesters to the home of a Wauwatosa police officer has begun the process of filing a $1 million lawsuit against the city and local police department. According to reports, Representative David Bowen (D-Milwaukee) routinely marched with protesters through the streets of Wauwatosa in 2020 and is now suing for the “emotional distress” he alleges he suffered as a result of one of the many marches he took part in. One of the marches, which took place on August 8, 2020, Bowen and his fellow protesters congregated outside a...

There is widespread agreement backed up by solid research that the federal government’s voluntary (“passive”) Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) is fundamentally flawed because it captures only 1 percent to 10 percent of all adverse vaccine events. As the number of COVID vaccine-related deaths reported to VAERS rises to unprecedented highs (now in excess of 4,600), the vaccine zealots have reversed strategies in their grand denial. They now claim VAERS over-reports deaths from the vaccine, cluttering the system with spurious incidents, or as Anthony Fauci would say, “mere anecdotes.” Therefore, when it comes to the number of vaccine-related deaths...

An award-winning BBC radio presenter died in hospital after suffering blood clots after she received the AstraZeneca vaccine, her family have revealed. Lisa Shaw, who worked for BBC Newcastle, developed 'severe' headaches a week after having the jab and fell seriously ill a few days later, relatives said in a statement. Ms Shaw, 44, died at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, on Friday afternoon having been treated in intensive care for blood clots and bleeding. A fact-of-death certificate lists the vaccine as one of the possible factors, but document does not determine a cause of death. It is expected that...

While serving as acting governor on Thursday, Idaho Lt. Governor Janice McGeachin (R) signed an executive order banning mask mandates throughout the state. “Today, as acting Governor of the State of Idaho, I signed an Executive Order to protect the rights and liberties and businesses by prohibiting the state and its political subdivisions – including public schools from imposing mask mandates in our state #idpol,” McGeachin wrote in a tweet. The executive order prohibits the state and political subdivisions from mandating face masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. It also prohibits “a face mask, face shield or face covering”...

Keri interviews Dennis Pratt, a 40-year libertarian, who came from the left. He moved to New Hampshire for the Free State Project 2.5 years ago. This year he is the Chef de Village of the Porcupine Freedom Festival (PorcFest 2021), which he reimagined and redesigned, an effort that doubled its normal attendance, shattered the prior 18-year record ticket sales three months before the festival started, and ultimately sold the festival out, for the first time in its history. Check out more information on PorcFest: https://porcfest.com.

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Over half of American Adults are now fully vaccinated, 62% have at least a first shot - Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths continue dropping) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 361,250,445 (20,928,000 J&J) Administered: 290,724,607 (10,539,494 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 165,718,717 Fully Vaccinated: 132,769,894

Providing further suspicion that something is afoot in the world of fraudulent election systems, the Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (Democrat) and the Dominion Company (who control the ballot counting systems) are warning state officials not to conduct audits of their local results.(Via WaPo) […] – In letters sent to the Cheboygan and Antrim county clerks last week, the office of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said the county boards have “no authority” to order audits — and instructed election clerks not to provide access to unaccredited outside parties to conduct them.“Interest in granting access to unqualified third...

President Joe Biden’s $6 trillion budget proposal for next year would run a $1.8 trillion federal government deficit despite a raft of new tax increases on corporations and high-income people designed to pay for his ambitious spending plans. “Now is the time to build (upon) the foundation that we’ve laid to make bold investments in our families and our communities and our nation,” Biden said Thursday in an appearance in Cleveland to tout his economic plans. “We know from history that these kinds of investments raise both the floor and the ceiling over the economy for everybody.” While speaking at...

BABYLON, FL—The Babylon Bee would like to take this opportunity to apologize to Xi Jinping for a very, very bad mistake we made earlier. We continued to refer to him as "president" in our articles, when we really should have called him Winnie the Pooh, as he self-identifies as a honey-loving stuffed bear who lives in the Hundred Acre Wood. Here is our apology, Mr. Pooh: 亲爱的习近平领导人，对于您称呼您为“总统”，我们深感抱歉。 我们知道您确定是吃蜂蜜且非常胖的黄熊。 我们犯了一个非常非常非常严重的错误，我们非常非常爱您和中国政府。 用不与之相称的代词来误认一个人是非常糟糕的。 您是小熊维尼，我们希望尊重这一身份。 因此，从现在开始，我们将永远只称您为小熊维尼（Winnie the Pooh），这是一只可爱的毛绒熊，与克里斯托弗·罗宾（Christopher Robin）一起玩，非常笨。 非常感谢，请不要将我们送到监狱营地。 Thank you very much for your understanding, and may this lead to greater cooperation between our inferior country and your much superior land of...