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MOSCOW—Russian authorities on Thursday ordered Facebook and the messaging app Telegram to pay steep fines for failing to remove banned content. A Moscow court fined Facebook a total of 17 million rubles (roughly $236,000) and Telegram 10 million rubles ($139,000). It wasn’t immediately clear what type of content the platforms failed to take down.

PHOENIX - Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Thursday he’s running for U.S. Senate, becoming the third major candidate seeking the Republican nomination to take on Democrat Mark Kelly. Brnovich, who is in his second term as the state’s lop law-enforcement officer, is the best-known GOP candidate and the only one with political experience. In a video announcement, Brnovich described himself as the son of immigrants who fled communism in Yugoslavia. He says he used his post as attorney general to take on "crony capitalists" and promote religious liberty, border security and election integrity.

Imagine you're a legit reporter given the opportunity to interview Biden's Communications Director about Kamala Harris's recent trip to Guatemala and Mexico, the putative purpose of which was to address the border crisis. Surely the first questions you'd ask would be along the lines: "Does President Biden want Harris to visit the border? If so, why hasn't she visited, and when will she? If he doesn't want her to visit, why not?" Trick question: we said "legit" reporter. And thus it was predictable, if no less outrageous, that when CNN's Brianna Keilar interviewed Comms Director Kate Bedingfield on this morning's...

-- The state’s Department of Public Health said thousands of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines are set to expire. Officials from the state's Dept. of Public Health said Connecticut has roughly 80,000 J&J doses, and 95 percent of them are set to expire between now and June 24. This comes as vaccine demand has dropped off. “We have not ordered new J&J through our state allocation since the J&J pause in early April, which has allowed us to gradually and responsibly work through our inventory as best as we can. In light of the expiring doses, we are employing a...

Critical race theory (CRT)—the idea that systemic racism permeates American life and American institutions despite all our civil-rights advances—has moved from the academic journals where it began life three decades ago into public-school classrooms and business training programs. Schoolchildren and corporate employees alike sit through sessions in which they learn that racism is America’s defining feature and that our nation’s “true founding” occurred when a slave ship bearing a cargo of black Africans docked at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. And while there may be little that employees can do when their bosses sponsor “diversity” consultants who tell them that white...

<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday announced plans to build a wall along the state’s border with Mexico.</p><p>Abbott, a Republican, made the announcement during a “Border Security Summit” press conference in Del Rio, and said he would discuss the plan in more detail next week.</p>

Texas Governor Greg Abbott told Breitbart Texas the State will immediately begin building border barriers in areas where migrants can easily cross the Rio Grande border with Mexico. The barriers will, in part, enable state law enforcement to arrest migrants for violations of state law.

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David Walker says faith leaders should face full force of law if they don’t comply with proposed banFaith leaders should face prosecution if they fail to comply with the government’s promised ban on so-called gay conversion practices, a senior bishop in the Church of England has said. David Walker, the bishop of Manchester, told the Guardian: “Where activity has harmed someone, the person who has caused the harm should face prosecution.” That activity should include prayer aimed at changing someone’s sexual orientation, he added. He said he was not referring to “gentle, non-coercive prayer, but where there is a level...

CNN announced today its new program "Legal Strokes" to be hosted by Jeffrey Toobin with his hand puppet "Little Bob", CNN was immediately accused of enabling White Privilege by selecting Toobin for the show over others of varying skin pigmentation. CNN stated that they weighed the situation carefully, but noted that Toobin had 27 years of experience which made him more qualified than other contenders such as Don Lemon or Anderson Cooper. Additionally, his hand puppet adds another dimension to the program. CNN viewers, a unanimous 10 of 10, stated that the program host with Little Bob would be a...

An extremist Salafist mosque in the city of Marseille has been ordered to close several times over the last five years by French authorities but continues to refuse to obey the orders. The mosque, located in the Consolat area of northern Marseille, has been ordered for years to be closed by the French government and appeared on a confidential note leaked by French media in rail on Islamist separatist mosques operating in France. According to a report from La Journal du Dimanche, the mosque and its leader have been subjected to orders, controls, immediate closure notice and more but have...

On what felt like one of the last normal Mondays of last March, Colin Kane, a 66-year-old driver for a Newcastle, England paving contractor called in to work and said that he was feeling too sick to come in that day. That wouldn't have raised any red flags, as Kane was known to have a serious lung condition that occasionally caused him to miss his shifts. But later that day, one of Kane's coworkers saw him at a pub and he immediately ratted Kane out to their bosses at Debmat Surfacing. What that guy could've done was wave at Kane,...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that it will convene an "emergency meeting" of its advisers on June 18th to discuss rare but higher-than-expected reports of heart inflammation following doses of the mRNA-based Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.

Francis will meet 'nationalist and populist' Prime Minister Viktor OrbánBUDAPEST, Hungary (ChurchMilitant.com) - In a dramatic reversal, Pope Francis has agreed to meet Hungary's conservative Christian rulers during his September visit to the International Eucharistic Congress (IEC) after Hungarian media shamed the pontiff's behavior as "anti-Christian." The pope "plans to meet separately with leaders of the Hungarian state, President János Áder, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, members of the government and senior state officials," the Hungarian Catholic Episcopal Conference (MKPK) announced Wednesday morning. Francis will meet Hungary's rulers before he celebrates the IEC closing Mass, a MKPK press statement revealed, dismissing...

The news this week that first son Hunter Biden routinely used a racial slur in conversations with his white attorney as recently as early 2019 has been studiously ignored by the mainstream media. The messages between Hunter Biden and Chicago-based lawyer George Mesires were saved on his abandoned laptop and were first reported by DailyMail.com “How much money do I owe you,” Hunter Biden asked Mesires in one exchange on Dec. 13, 2018, before adding, “Becaause [sic] n—a you better not be charging me Hennessy rates.” The following month, Hunter Biden used the slur twice more in a bizarre, wide-ranging...

Hackers have stolen 26 million user logins for tech giants including Amazon, Apple, Facebook as well as vital payment information in the latest online security breach. The malware hack, exposed by cybersecurity provider NordLocker, also saw payment details nabbed from 3.25 million computers that run Windows software. It was uncovered after researchers discovered a 1.2 terabyte database filled with stolen personal information. According to a report released by NordLocker on Wednesday, an unidentified, Trojan-type malware stole the files, including 26 million login credentials, between 2018 and 2020.

Kentucky pro-life advocates won a legal victory this week against a Louisville buffer zone that restricts pro-life sidewalk counselors from reaching out to women outside the city’s only abortion facility. The Louisville Metro Council narrowly passed the 10-foot buffer zone outside EMW Women’s Surgical Center in May. On Sunday, however, Sisters for Life and the Kentucky Right to Life Association sued the city, arguing that the ordinance unconstitutionally “squelch[es] dissenting speech,” WDRB reports. Barely two days later, Kentucky Right to Life announced that the city agreed not to enforce the ordinance while the lawsuit moves forward. “This is a new...

Days before the fifth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting, U.S. Senators passed a bill designating the site of the former nightclub as a national memorial.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities If there is anything that I have discovered and learnt over the last 12 months, more than any other time in my history, it has been to never judge a book by...

Last Friday, a San Diego-based federal court overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on so-called assault weapons. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez sided with a number of gun advocacy groups challenging the law, finding that firearms prohibited in the state of California are protected under Supreme Court precedent.