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The visit to the Tain-Hermitage school, which specializes in the restaurant industry, came on the eve of the French government lifting restrictions on indoor dining and other measures implemented during the coronavirus pandemic. Macron was scheduled to meet with restaurant industry representatives, NBC reported. Video of the incident shows Macron, wearing a black mask, approaching a crowd of people standing on the other side of a partition. Macron appears to pat the forearm of the closest person in the crowd, who is clad in a green T-shirt and a white mask. As Marcon looks to be moving down the line...

More than 800 suspected criminals have been arrested worldwide after being tricked into using an FBI-run encrypted messaging app, officials say. The operation, jointly conceived by Australia and the FBI, saw devices with the ANOM app secretly distributed among criminals, allowing police to monitor their chats about drug smuggling, money laundering and even murder plots. Officials called it a watershed moment. Targets included drug gangs and people with links to the mafia. Drugs, weapons, luxury vehicles and cash were also seized in the operation, which was conducted across more than a dozen countries. This included eight tons of cocaine, 250...

A criminal Romanian oligarch hired Hunter Biden in 2016 to get his bribery conviction overturned by leveraging help from then-Vice President Joe Biden's powerful connections, according to a bombshell new report. In 2016, billionaire real estate tycoon Gabriel Popoviciu was convicted in his home country of Romania for bribing a university official to buy a 550-acre plot of government-owned land for a severely reduced price.

Same-sex Marriages. The Synod of Germany Holds Class in IndianapolisAll roads lead to Rome, not only from Cardinal Reinhard Marx's turbulent Germany, but also from the quiet and remote American state of Indiana.In Indianapolis, the capital, a school run by the Jesuits has appealed to the Holy See to be granted the right to disobey its archbishop, on a matter the “synodal way” afoot in Germany has mastered: homosexuality.It all started with the mock wedding celebrated in 2017 between Layton Payne-Elliott, a teacher at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School (left, photo by Kathleen Delaney for the newspaper "Indy Star"), and Joshua...

June marks Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month. In the United States, nearly six million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease. Globally, more than 50 million people are currently afflicted with Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s is a relentless disease that impairs memory and other central mental functions. Thankfully, there is finally a bit of hope that we could be closer to a cure for Alzheimer’s by way of a newly approved experimental drug. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved Biogen’sAduhelm(aducanumab), an experimental drug used to treat Alzheimer’s disease. This is the first Alzheimer’s treatment that has come to market since 2003....

Licensed marijuana stores in Washington state can offer free joints to promote on-site COVID-19 vaccine clinics, officials said Monday. The state Liquor and Cannabis Board is calling the effort the “Joints for Jabs” program. The board says licensed adult-use marijuana retail shops can give away a single pre-rolled joint to anyone over 21 who gets a shot at an on-site vaccine clinic held by July 12. The board has already allowed breweries, wineries and restaurants to offer free drinks in exchange for proof of vaccination — though alcohol-serving establishments have not had to host a clinic on-site to give out...

Great white shark sightings and detections are starting to increase along the Cape as the weather heats up and more people head to the ocean. One great white shark — a nearly 11-foot female tagged off the Cape last summer — has already traveled north of Provincetown, according to OCEARCH’s shark tracker. Meanwhile, the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Sharktivity app has recent shark sightings during the first week of June. A pilot flying out of Chatham Airport during a sightseeing tour last week spotted a great white about a half mile off Marconi Beach in Wellfleet. The Sharktivity app is...

In the middle of a firestorm over Critical Race Theory, the general counsel’s office for the Palm Beach County School board, in an unprecedented move, emailed pro-Black Lives Matter talking points to school board members. Critics questioned the ethics of the decision, noting that the purpose of the board’s general counsel is to provide legal advice and defend its actions, not offer political or policy guidance on issues to elected officials. The document from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, “Talking Points on Anti-Semitism and Black Lives Matter,” contains several statements suggesting that the BLM organization as a whole is...

The Indian Bar Association has taken legal action against the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Chief Scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan for her alleged role in spreading disinformation on the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19.The association served a legal notice (pdf) on Swaminathan on May 25, claiming that she was “spreading disinformation and misguiding the people of India, in order to fulfill her agenda” and sought to prevent her from “causing further damage.”They further say that Swaminathan, in her statements against the use of ivermectin, ignored research and clinical trials from two organizations—the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care (FLCCC) Alliance and...

I’ve been watching documentary filmmaker Ken Burns’ classic series The Civil War , and I’m loving it! Since coming to the South, my interest in the horrific fight between Americans has increased dramatically. I’ve also read Bill O’Reilly’s / Martin Dugard’s book Killing Lincoln, which I also enjoyed immensely. Watching The Civil War, I heard Frederick Douglass quoted many times, which piqued my interest too, so now I’m also reading his autobiography! I definitely highly recommend this one. Too many have white-washed Slavery with an image of happy slaves joyfully singing spirituals. This is the other side, from the perspective...

Tea Party movement co-founder and GOP strategist Michael Johns has called for Dr. Fauci's immediate termination and also an investigation into NIH funding of Wuhan Institute of Virology following the release of emails last week. During an interview on One America News Network "Tipping Point," Johns was asked by host Kara McKinney:

WASHINGTON—A report on the origins of Covid-19 by a U.S. government national laboratory concluded that the hypothesis claiming the virus leaked from a Chinese lab in Wuhan is plausible and deserves further investigation, according to people familiar with the classified document. The study was prepared in May 2020 by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and was drawn on by the State Department when it conducted an inquiry into the pandemic’s origins during the final months of the Trump administration. It is attracting fresh interest in Congress now that President Biden has ordered that U.S. intelligence agencies report to...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is blasting Vice President Kamala Harris for telling illegal immigrants to not come to the United States amid a record surge in illegal border crossings — calling the veep’s comments “disappointing.” Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) offered the rebuke in a series of tweets Monday evening, retweeting a video of the vice president discouraging illegal migration during her trip to Guatemala. “I want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come, do not come,” Harris said while speaking to reporters at a press conference...

A recent Associated Press story highlights blowback from the recent wolf hunt conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR). A contentious debate ensued when the scheduled hunt was moved up to February from November 2021. A Wisconsin judge broke the logjam ordering the DNR to proceed on schedule with the hunt. The agency brought the ongoing hunt to a premature halt after two days, when the predicted take of 119 wolves reached 216. Many more wolves were out there than anyone thought beforehand. AP avoids informing readers why the gray wolf should not have been enabled to reclaim...

Being labeled a “conspiracy theorist” by those using the term as a pejorative has become commonplace for me. The funny part is I was railing against other conspiracy theorists not too long ago, back in my “normie” days when I still thought there was a chance the system could be fixed with enough information getting out to the masses.I’ll be labeled a conspiracy theorist again for this article despite the fact that it’s 100% true. Much of it is demonstrable. The rest is informed speculation, which is to say we know it’s true without having the clearance to prove it...

VP tells interviewer 'I don't understand the point that you're making' when asked about why she hasn't visited borderVice President Kamala Harris falsely claimed that "we've been to the border" when pressed on why she has not yet visited the southern border after being tasked by President Biden to handle the "root causes" of migration. During an interview with NBC News Tuesday, Harris, who has been criticized by Republicans for not making the trip to the U.S.-Mexico border, was asked whether she had any plans to do so.

ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.

Yesterday we reported that Shaye Moss was subpoenaed in Georgia for her activities in the 2020 election in Fulton County. Now it’s her mother’s turn, Ruby Freeman. Over the weekend it was reported that Ruby Freeman’s daughter Shaye Moss, who was also Ruby’s boss during the election counting process in Fulton County, Georgia, was subpoenaed. Shaye Moss was famous for kicking everyone out of the room where votes were counted in Fulton County and telling observers to go home. Then Shaye and others including Ralph Jones and her mother Ruby dragged hidden boxes of ballots out from underneath tables and...

"The forgotten man and woman" propelled Donald Trump to his shocking electoral victory in 2016. Understanding the perspective of these voters is essential regardless of one's political perspective. My February 17, 2017 lecture at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York: