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Grammy-nominated rapper DaBaby was one of several people detained for questioning after a double shooting late Monday night outside a popular steakhouse in South Beach that led to two arrests, CBS Miami reports. Miami Beach Police said Tuesday that DaBaby, whose real name is Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, had been released. According to arrest reports, Wisdom Awute, 21, and Christopher Urena, 29, both face charges of attempted first-degree murder with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault. Urena also faces charges of grand theft and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The shooting wrapped up a violent Memorial Day weekend in...

There’s a strange dynamic happening right now between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. If it weren’t for the fact that Biden is well on his way towards complete cognitive collapse, I’d think he was being cunning by giving his power-hungry successor the tough jobs to make her look bad. But since he probably doesn’t even realize she’s gunning for his job or what his job really is from day to day without being reminded, that leaves only two possibilities. Either someone is working on his behalf (Jill?) to keep Harris in the ditch or someone really thinks she can do...

Former “Hardball” host Chris Matthews said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that he departed the network because he “remarked on somebody’s appearance in the makeup room.” As Mediaite pointed out, in March 2020, Laura Bassett claimed that Matthews “inappropriately flirted” and made her feel uncomfortable before appearing on his show.

One of the disadvantages – or advantages depending on your point of view – of never watching news, local or otherwise, is not knowing what Tom-foolery is afoot. Yesterday for example I heard on the news while driving around that a new rate went into effect yesterday for Consumers Energy, the utility that provides half the state with electricity. Consumers Energy's 1.6 million residential electricity customers began paying 50% more during peak afternoon hours this week in an effort to reduce energy generation in the future.The subsidiary of Jackson-based CMS Energy Corp. has notified its customers in the Lower Peninsula's...

China's president has said he wants the country to "expand its circle of friends" by revamping its image.

Nikki Fried Officially Running for Governor Against Ron DeSantisShe's finally in and we are off to the races.Javier Manjarres | June 1, 2021It’s official! Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has finally signed the controversial Transgender female sports ban into law today and has once again taken the media reigns for the day. Oh, wait, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried filed paperwork to put herself on the ballot for governor in 2022.Commissioner Fried’s non-announcement fell on deaf ears and was overshadowed by DeSantis’s signing of the transgender bill in Jacksonville.Fried filed the paperwork but has not announced her actions on Twitter or any...

The University of Delaware’s Joseph R. Biden School of Public Policy and Administration hosted an event defending the COVID-19 “natural origins” cover-up, as well as the scientific collaboration between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party, The National Pulse can today reveal. Featured speakers included the discredited EcoHealth Alliance chief Peter Daszak alongside Chinese Communist Party officials. The May 2021 event was hosted by the Biden-linked university center in partnership with the offices of Senator Chris Coons – the Senate successor to President Biden dubbed the “Biden whisperer” – and Senator Lisa Murkowski. Named after the former veep, the institute...

According to the Bible, the Israelites stayed at a place called Kadesh following their Exodus from Egypt and wanderings through the desert. Kadesh—also called Kadesh-Barnea in some Biblical passages1—was where Moses’ sister Miriam died and was buried (Numbers 20:1) and from where Moses sent 12 men to spy out the Promised Land (Numbers 13:26).Where is Kadesh-Barnea? Investigations since the early 19th century have attempted to find the site. Tell el-Qudeirat, located in the valley of the Wadi el-Ein in the northeastern part of the Sinai Peninsula, is the best candidate for Biblical Kadesh-Barnea, according to scholarly consensus today.Excavations conducted at...

“In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his god” (Daniel 1:1-2). Integrity shines brightest against the backdrop of adversity. Our passage today tells of the tragic time in Israel’s history when God chastened her severely by allowing King Nebuchadnezzar...

On this date in 1948, seven SS men were hanged at Germany’s Landsberg Prison, condemned for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the so-called Doctors Trial. Four of the hanged were doctors; three were non-physicians who assisted them. Their trial (which included 16 others, variously acquitted or sentenced to prison terms) by an American military tribunal was a conscious attempt to establish criminal responsibility among the medical profession. As prosecutor Telford Taylor* said in his opening statement. To kill, to maim, and to torture is criminal under all modern systems of law. These defendants did not kill in hot...

Enoch enjoyed close fellowship with the Lord. In fact, his communion with God was so intimate that the Lord translated him to glory long before his life on earth might have ended. “By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, ‘and was not found, because God had taken him’; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God” (Hebrews 11:5, NKJV). Why did the Lord choose to translate Enoch? The opening word of this verse tells us very plainly that it was because of his faith. Moreover, the closing phrase tells...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (FOX19) - Kentucky will roll out an incentive program for people to get vaccinated, Gov. Andy Beshear said on Tuesday. The move comes as 2.06 million Kentuckians, or 46 percent of the state’s population, are at least partially vaccinated, according to Kentucky’s vaccination data. Beshear has previously stated he would consider incentive programs for vaccinations, even saying he would be willing to copy Ohio’s Vax-a-Million lottery as several other states have done. “Any idea will be considered. We are willing to steal any good idea that other states have had,” the governor said last week. Ohio saw a...

It’s hard to find someone who doesn’t love a good steal — but there are a few pieces that are worth splurging on. For some, it’s an iconic handbag, and for others, it could be a piece of jewelry that they’ve been saving up for. Somehow, for editors and influencers alike, the one thing they’ll always shell out for is a great pair of shoes. “When I invest in my wardrobe, shoes and bags are always my go-to,” says Kelsey Stiegman, a senior style editor at Seventeen. “I try to go for pieces that are either incredibly unique or timeless...

June 2, 2021 Wednesday of week 9 in Ordinary Time Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingTobit 3:1-11,16-17 ©Raphael is sent to bring remedy to the house of TobitSad at heart, I, Tobit, sighed and wept, and began this prayer of lamentation:‘You are just, O Lord,and just are all your works.All your ways are grace and truth,and you are the Judge of the world.‘Therefore, Lord, remember me, look on me.Do not punish me for my sinsor for my heedless faultsor for those of my fathers.‘For we have sinned against youand broken your commandments;and you have...

(CNN) American democracy -- under a relentless, multi-front assault from pro-Donald Trump Republicans -- is about to show whether it is strong enough to save itself. Such a premise would have been considered absurd through much of history. But since Trump left office after destroying the tradition of peaceful transfers of power in a failed attempt to steal the 2020 election, it has become clear that his insurrectionism was only the first battle in a longer political war as his allies tout ridiculous fantasies about returning him to power to applause and online acclaim. The mechanisms of American institutions that...

ALEXANDRIA, Saturday, June 1. The steamer Gipsey, from Farlington via Fort Washington at 10 o'Clock this morning, brings the following information, which had been received at the latter place: The engagement at Aquia Creek resulted in the retirement of the Freeborn and Anacosta, after a severe fight, in which a number were killed on both sides. The two steamers retired to await the Pawnee. The Pawnee stopped at Fort Washington, to await the arrival of the transport Baltimore, with troops, supposed to be the New-York Seventy-first Regiment. The Pawnee and the Baltimore proceeded in company. WASHINGTON, Saturday, June 1 --...

Americans, President Joe Biden's budget proposal suggests, should not worry that he plans to significantly increase federal deficits over the next eight years. Why? Because he intends to begin reducing them -- but not eliminating them -- nine years from now. Of course, even if the now 78-year-old Biden were to run for reelection in 2024 and win the presidency again, he would be out of office in nine years. Page 26 of Biden's budget proposal carries a profoundly ironic subhead. It says: "Putting the Nation on a Fiscally Responsible Path." "The Budget charts a fiscally responsible path for delivering...

Fewer American babies were named 'Karen' last year than any year since 1932, after the name became a pejorative slur for white women who throw fits in public. Data released by the Social Security Administration shows that last year, just 325 newborns were named Karen, which represents 0.019 percent of total female births in 2020. Karen, which had already been declining in popularity for years, plunged from the 660th most popular female name to number 831, tying for the 13th sharpest decline among all female baby names. The name Karen peaked in popularity in 1965, when 32,873 Karens were born,...

VIDEOAny suggestion that the New York investigation of Donald Trump is in any way political is yet another example of "THE BIG LIE." As you can see, New York Attorney General Letitia James has conducted herself in an absolutely professional manner completely free of any hint of partisan bias.

Peter Daszak, a zoologist whose non-profit steered U.S. funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, thanked Dr. Anthony Fauci for pushing back on the theory that the coronavirus leaked from a lab, in an April 2020 email published as part of a FOIA request by Buzzfeed. Daszak’s organization, the EcoHealth Alliance, funneled $3.4 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health to the WIV to study bat coronaviruses between 2014 and 2019. While politicians and scientists in the U.S. have suggested that the novel coronavirus initially leaked from the WIV before spreading across the globe, Daszak has vehemently denied...