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A private security firm hired a high-ranking U.S. Secret Service agent as CEO one week after he ran an intervention on Hunter Biden amid an alleged drug and prostitute binge at a Los Angeles hotel room in 2018, text messages reportedly show. “Press releases by a private security firm published a week after the text exchange with Hunter announced the agent left the Secret Service after a 25-year career and joined the firm as CEO,” writes the Daily Mail, which first reported on the Los Angeles incident in April. On Wednesday, the Washington Examiner provided more details of the May...

A video of a father and his daughter speaking out against critical race theory has gone viral amid an ongoing national debate on the topic. The video posted by TikTok user Kory Yeshua shows him sitting next to his unnamed daughter and saying he teaches her she can be anything she wants to be. “It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white or any color,” the girl says while a somber tune plays in the background. Yeshua regularly posts conservative videos critical of Democratic policies and Yeshua has said the BLM organization is for “the destruction of America and the...

President Joe Biden has lashed out at Republicans in Texas for their efforts to increase election integrity in the state, calling the proposed legislation an “assault on democracy.” But the voting laws in his home state of Delaware, where he served as a Senator for 30 years, has much stricter voting laws. Biden said in a statement to the Texas Tribune: Today, Texas legislators put forth a bill that joins Georgia and Florida in advancing a state law that attacks the sacred right to vote. It’s part of an assault on democracy that we’ve seen far too often this year...

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that the supporters of former President Donald Trump “resent” him because they did not “understand” that comments and recommendations he made during the Trump administration have changed under the Biden administration because the data evolves with time. Fauci said, “Yeah, I mean there is no doubt there are people out there, for one reason or another, resent me for what I did in the last administration, which was not anything that was anti-Trump at all. It was just trying to get the right information,...

China's nuclear fusion reactor set new world record by running at 216million°F It also achieved a peak temperature more than ten times hotter than the sun Scientists hope the 'artificial sun' will unlock a powerful green energy source Next aim to run at a consistent temperature for a week rather than 100 seconds ...The machine, China's largest and most advanced nuclear fusion experimental research device, uses a powerful magnetic field to fuse hot plasma. It is designed to replicate the nuclear fusion process that occurs naturally in the sun and stars to provide almost infinite clean energy....

Power companies run by billionaire friends Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have chosen Wyoming to launch the first Natrium nuclear reactor project on the site of a retiring coal plant. TerraPower, founded by Gates about 15 years ago, and power company PacifiCorp, owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, said on Wednesday that the exact site of the Natrium reactor demonstration plant was expected to be announced by the end of the year.... ...The project features a 345 megawatt sodium-cooled fast reactor with molten salt-based energy storage that could boost the system’s power output to 500MW during peak power demand. TerraPower...

Three police officers were shot in Delaware on Wednesday night after they responded to a call from a local resident. The officers were shot after they responded to a call at around 10:30 p.m. at the 2400 block of North Market Street, in Wilmington, according to a police statement. Dozens of their colleagues responded, with the officers transported to a local hospital, where they are in a stable condition...

Observers spotted a Russian Navy spy ship loitering off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Within days, the Department of Defense announced a ballistic missile intercept test had failed...Interestingly, the NOTAM for the test was only published on May 26—the date the U.S. Naval Institute News reported on the Kareliya’s location.

...Oumuamua took the world by storm in October 2017 when it was identified as the first known visitor from another star system. A pair of Harvard scientists suggested the long and thin object was a spacecraft, sparking a frantic flurry of scans by astronomers as it flew by.... ...Perhaps strangest of all was that the object appeared to accelerate on its journey, suggesting it was powered by something.... The new study lines up with research published last year....

Democracy, by definition and in its most general form, is a system of government in which the people ‎have the power to choose their rulers. Of the main indicators for democracy is the existence of free and ‎fair elections. In addition, a free press, freedom of expression, and adherence to freedom of religion and ‎beliefs are some of the other pillars of democracy that enable the people of a country to consciously and ‎voluntarily elect government officials. There are democratic or parliamentary governments in which the ‎president or prime minister is determined by parliamentary elections or by direct popular vote.‎...

There are 2,755 billionaires globally – and combined, they are worth over $13 trillion. Of these ultra wealthy individuals, Visual Capitalist’s Avery Koop notes that just over 100 are millennials, born between the years 1981 and 1996. This young generation represents around 3.8% of all billionaires on a global basis with a combined net worth of $573.1 billion. This visualization, using data from Forbes, ranks the richest 25 millennial billionaires and details their source of wealth, total net worth, nationality, and age.Note: Forbes categorized billionaires by current age (2021). For those slightly over or under the age range of Millennials,...

A preacher in Turkey has said that men should grow beards to make clear they are not women. Islamic speaker Murat Bayaral spoke on TV show Fatih Medreseleri this weekend, slamming men without beards. Bayaral said: 'Men should grow beards. One of the two body parts that separate men from women is the beard,' ..'For example, if you see a man with long hair from afar you may think he is a woman if he does not have a beard. Because nowadays women and men dress similarly. Allah forbid! You could be possessed by indecent thoughts.'

Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell said Wednesday that President Joe Biden offended African Americans when he told a crowd observing the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre that Black businessmen and women don’t have lawyers to represent them or their businesses. "Joe Biden, look at me! I’m Black. I’m a lawyer," an outraged Terrell said on "Hannity." "There are thousands of Black lawyers. This is insulting, this is offensive," the Fox News contributor continued. "I’m Black. I’m a lawyer, 30 years as a lawyer, and here's the other part that is so insulting. It makes an assumption, a racist assumption...

Concerns about increased violence and crime continue to fuel a surge in gun purchases and background checks. The FBI set a record for May in background checks. The bureau's latest data suggests 2021 will be another record year for background checks and sales, topping the nearly 40 million checks last year, the Washington Examiner reported Wednesday. A total of 3.22 million background checks were performed in May, according to Forbes. That number was down 8% from 3.51 million in April but up 4% from 3.09 million in May 2020. Inventory of firearms is low and the availability of ammunition is...

The incident occurred in Etawah district's Sanadpur where Surabhi was tying the knot with local resident Manoj Kumar. Surabhi died due to a cardiac arrest.In a disturbing incident, the sister of a bride in Uttar Pradesh (Northern India) was made to marry the groom after the bride collapsed and died in the middle of the wedding ceremony. The incident occurred in Etawah district’s Sanadpur where Surabhi was tying the knot with local resident Manoj Kumar. After exchanging garlands as part of Hindu wedding rituals, however, Surabhi collapsed on the stage of the ‘Jaymala’. A doctor was called to treat her...

On Thursday (5/27/21) a new local video was posted to Youtube by Buffalo Biodiesel. The company shared the video in an effort to identify a man they say stole fry oil from Famous Pizza in Bethel, CT. Again, this video does not come from the Bethel Police Department, but if you have any information, they would be the people to contact. The video is accompanied by the following description: "On the morning of May 26, 2021, security cameras at Famous Pizza in Bethel, CT captured this footage of an adult male, pictured left, who pulled up in a white van...

Iran’s failure to provide credible explanations for traces of uranium found at two undeclared sites is “a big problem” that is affecting the country’s credibility, the head of the UN’s nuclear inspectorate, has said. Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), also said Iran and the US could not simply return to the old nuclear deal... ...He said the issue of knowledge acquired by the Iranians was “very hard to resolve. They have developed new centrifuges. Research and development has taken place. It was not allowed by the original JCPOA. It has happened and now...

Shocking scenes in Melbourne, Australia as a church service is attacked by police and new government is on the way in Israel but first... Israel's health ministry says its probable that heart inflammation cases found mainly in vaccinated young men are linked to the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine... That news Tuesday and today Israel's health ministry announcing that 12 to 16-year olds will be vaccinated starting next week... (Story Updated) Shocking video of the crackdown on outdoor worship in Melbourne, Australia last Sunday. Worshipers outdoors after their pastor was arrested Saturday night and the church blocked off by police on Sunday....

Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has effectively ruled that only one more automatic budget reconciliation is permissible this year, dealing a blow to Democrats who previously thought they would have two more chances to sidestep Republicans in advancing President Biden's agenda. MacDonough ruled that a revision to the 2021 budget resolution cannot be automatically discharged from the Senate Budget Committee, meaning Democrats would need at least one Republican on the 11-11 panel to vote with them. The bombshell ruling effectively means Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) will be able to use only one more reconciliation vehicle to pass Biden's key...