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ALBANY — A Cohoes man charged with second-degree manslaughter and felony assault in the methamphetamine overdose death of a 6-week-old baby was ordered released from the Albany County jail on Tuesday under supervision of probation officials. Anthony Ojeda, 38, a native of Mexico, who had been jailed without bail after initially being held on $100,000, cannot leave Albany County and must attend substance abuse counseling. He will be subject to electronic monitoring of his whereabouts and must surrender all passports, County Judge William Carter told the defendant. “Although the possibility is remote, there is still a possibility that he could...

Box 500 Apartments — built out of shipping containers stacked six stories high and locked together like LEGO bricks — is set to open in July at 543 S. 500 West in Salt Lake City. The 83 units were awarded city incentives to be affordable and rents will range from $829 to $1,204 a month, said Amanda Best, a specialist in the housing development program. Tenants have to qualify to rent them by earning 60% or less of the city’s median income, said builder Rod Newman. Best said maximum income levels depend on household size, but will initially range from...

A joke about Mets pitcher Marcus Stroman’s du-rag has landed an MLB broadcaster in hot water and led to him apologizing for the “insensitive” remark. During the second inning of the Mets-Diamondbacks game on Tuesday, former Arizona manager Bob Brenly, who currently serves as a broadcaster for Bally Sports Arizona, attempted to joke about Mets pitcher Marcus Stroman’s du-rag. “Pretty sure that’s the same du-rag that Tom Seaver used to wear when he pitched for the Mets,” Brenly joked. The joke, however, failed to make Stroman laugh. After hearing the comment, Stroman took to Twitter to blast the “racist undertones”...

Biden calls out moderate Democratic senators, urges 'action' President Biden this week took the rare step of calling out two Democratic moderates — Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) — in a sign of growing frustration over stalled legislative priorities. Congressional aides say Democratic lawmakers have been reaching out to the White House in hopes that Biden would be more actively involved in efforts to convince Manchin, a key swing vote, to get behind the Democratic agenda.

The federal probe into New York Gov. Cuomo’s office allegedly fudging the numbers on nursing homes in the state during the coronavirus pandemic combined with multiple sexual harassment charges reportedly stand at about $2.5 million currently. And, it’s a cost that could be paid for by taxpayers. This is a possibility is according to an Associated Press story on Tuesday. “Taxpayers are set to foot the bill for a $2.5 million contract for lawyers representing Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office in an ongoing federal investigation over his administration’s handling of COVID-19 data in nursing homes, the governor said Wednesday,” the Associated...

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has said there is little that the department does that isn't impacted by climate change. The President's Fiscal 2022 Defense Budget Request reflects that reality. Droughts, wildfires, sea level rise, increasing numbers of destructive storms and more are concerns for DOD. "If you think about what generates missions, we know that extreme weather events … are affecting conditions on the ground in lots of places around the world," Joe Bryan, DOD's senior climate advisor, said. The Defense Department must take climate change under consideration in forming strategy, conducting operations and buying equipment and...

In January 2018, Elon Musk kickstarted several years' worth of speculation that he was going to enter the restaurant business, and of course he did it in less than 140 characters. "Gonna put an old school drive-in, roller skates & rock restaurant at one of the new Tesla Supercharger locations in LA," he tweeted at the time. In subsequent tweets, he hinted that his Teslafied drive-in would also show clips from the "100 best" movies, and that Tesla drivers may be able to see the restaurant's menu on their cars' touchscreens as soon as they pulled into the joint. Later...

Washington D.C. police are offering $10,000 for any information about 42-year-old Maryland resident Kenneth Miles Davis' whereabouts Police say Davis shot a woman in a road rage incident on May 19 while her two kids were in the car The driver was struck in the shoulder and a 5-year-old was hit by the shattered glass while the 11-year-old was traumatized Surveillance footage from the event shows Davis getting out of his car and approaching a gray sedan that he starts shooting He then turns back and begins to shoot the car behind him, before getting into his Maserati and making...

Arizona is taking steps to use hydrogen cyanide, the deadly gas used during the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis at Auschwitz and other extermination camps, to kill inmates on death row. Corrections officials have refurbished a gas chamber that hasn’t been used in more than 20 years and have procured ingredients for the lethal gas, also known as Zyklon B, according to partially redacted documents obtained by the Guardian. Invoices show that the state purchased a brick of potassium cyanide, sodium hydroxide pellets and sulfuric acid, and a report details the considerable efforts taken to deem the gas chamber at...

During a sit-down interview that aired Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) revealed that her greatest accomplishment in the political realm is the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Pelosi touted the legislation signed into law during President Barack Obama’s time in the White House, saying it “enabled millions of people to have access to quality, affordable care.” According to Pelosi, the Affordable Care Act is a “pillar” along with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid

Call for more ‘synodality’ is another chance for liberal activists to drive green agendaThe quest for synodality is a key theme in the teaching of Pope Francis. But the truth is that no one has a very clear understanding what 'synodality' means. And maybe that’s the point.2 June, 2021 (CatholicCulture.org) — As an editor, a writer, and a reader, I cherish clarity of expression. As a Catholic, I am appalled by the abuses of language — the pretense, the confusion, the obfuscation, and even the outright deceit—that I see in many recent pronouncements from our Church leadership.Last week the Vatican...

Last night, Rand Paul told Laura Ingraham that a bipartisan panel should look into the origins of COVID and whether the gain of function studies financed by Fauci had anything to do with it. As enVolve reported yesterday, newly released emails from White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci prove that he knew the Wuhan Institute of Virology was carrying out dangerous gain-of-function research. Sen. Rand Paul took Fauci to task over this on Wednesday night. “The emails paint a disturbing picture, a disturbing picture of Dr. Fauci, from the very beginning, worrying that he had been funding gain-of-function...

Montgomery County is being sued in County Circuit Court over its recently-passed ghost gun law. Bill 4-21, passed by the Montgomery County Council on April 6, restricts the possession, use, sale, and transfer of ghost guns, undetectable guns, and certain other firearms within 100 yards of places of public assembly; restricts the possession, use, sale, and transfer of ghost guns, undetectable guns, and certain other firearms with respect to minors;... Maryland Shall Issue, Inc., a leading 2nd Amendment rights organization in the state, gun retailers, and several Montgomery County residents are plaintiffs in the suit. They seek to overturn the...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) government courted by President Joe Biden with hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars released a music video last month encouraging Palestinians to step on the U.S. and Israeli flags. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), a watchdog organization that monitors the Palestinian media, reported Tuesday: During the recent violent Arab riots in Jerusalem and mixed Jewish-Arab cities, and Hamas’ launching of thousands of rockets against Israel from the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Culture released a song against “normalization” with Israel. Part of the music video shows different people marching in protest and stomping on...

It’s been over a year since the WHO declared the coronavirus a pandemic after originally downplaying the threat. It is no secret that both the disease and the response to combat it following this SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in late 2019 have turned our world upside-down. Mandates, lockdowns, and guidelines seem to change every time Dr. Fauci opens his mouth. All of these unprecedented rules were put into place, we were told, to slow down the spread of a disease that today is linked to the death of over half a million Americans and 3.7 million global citizens in the last year....

The Pentagon defended the department’s diversity and inclusion efforts rolled out during the Biden administration, characterizing it as a matter of defending the nation. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said what the department is “really focused on” is defending the nation. “That means putting in place the right resources, the right strategies, the right operational concepts to do that around the world. Now, in order to do that, you need good people.” He added: "The secretary has been very clear about the fact that we want to get all the best talent that we can. If you meet the standards...

Fighting Woke CapitalOur biggest institutions are blocking us from pursuing a good American life. I thought I’d start today by sketching out a vision for what we should be about in the conservative movement in the twenty-first century, because I think it’s useful to anchor ourselves, not just in first principles but in the lives of the people affected by those principles, and then I’ll talk about why I think “woke capital” is such a problem.I think that we should fight for the right of every American to live a good life in the country they call their own, to...

A radical Black Lives Matter leader has laid out fresh demands for reparations that must be made in the form of land reapportionment from "wealthy white people."BLM activist Bree Newsome, a notorious Marxist and advocate for abolishing the police, slammed white Americans whose families committed "atrocities" by allegedly stealing property from black people earlier in the nation's history.

[Catholic Caucus] THE GRUNT PADRE: A Military Chaplain Who Died a HeroFrom RTV on Memorial Day:Long before the spirit of Vatican II had reinvented the Catholic priest in the image and likeness of Jimmy Martin, there were so many heroes numbered among Catholic priests that even Hollywood used to make movies about them.Whether it was the more than 2,500 Catholic priests who were murdered by the Nazis at the Dachau concentration camp, or the thousands killed or tortured alongside József Cardinal Mindszenty under the Soviet regime, or the untold numbers of military chaplains who gave their lives on the battlefields...

Evidence that the coronavirus might have come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology has been in plain sight since the start of the pandemic. Why did Dr. Anthony Fauci, the president’s chief medical adviser, ridicule and dismiss it? Why did mainstream media attack anyone who pointed it out?There is still much we don’t know about Covid-19. I tried not to be critical of officials forced to make tough decisions with limited, imperfect information. But as new information becomes available, it’s a matter of life and death to integrate what we learn into future policy decisions.It’s often hard to admit being...