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A faster-than-expected recovery in domestic air travel is helping Boeing Co. find new homes for unclaimed 737 MAX jets whose buyers walked away or collapsed during the pandemic. The Covid-19 vaccine-fueled travel rebound in the U.S. and some other parts of the world has left the Chicago-based plane maker with around 10 stored MAX aircraft needing buyers, people familiar with the matter said. Last July, it counted around 100. While previous travel rebounds have been cut short by new waves of infections and restrictions, airline executives are more confident now that the recovery has begun in earnest and their finances...

The Biden administration says it can defend federal exemptions for faith-based colleges and opposed a motion by Christian organizations to intervene in a lawsuit seeking to strike down religious colleges' exemptions to Title IX law dealing with LGBT discrimination. The Oregon-based Religious Exemption Accountability Project, an LGBT activist organization, filed a federal lawsuit in March on behalf of dozens of LGBT current and former students at several Christian colleges and universities who felt discriminated against because their school's upheld policies consistent with gender and sexuality beliefs. REAP’s lawsuit seeks to end what it says are “sexual, physical and psychological abuses...

https://uncoverdc.com/2021/06/09/agent-of-disaster-part-1/ (Part 1 appeared here a couple of days ago) What if we were to tell you a story? Of course, this wouldn’t refer to anyone living or dead, you understand. That might be, er, messy. Our story begins with an assumption that supporters of Donald Trump (and people on the right, generally) have had for several years, that Communist China is a mortal enemy of the United States; that the ChiComs (as we affectionately call them) were being badly hammered back into their 2nd class status by the aforementioned Donald Trump; and that they would do pretty much anything...

Food prices are absolutely outrageous now, but they appear only to be moving higher as the year progresses. According to a new Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) report, global food import costs are estimated to jump in 2021 to a record due to increasing commodity and shipping costs. FAO's "Food Outlook" report, published Thursday, estimates the global food import bill, including shipping-related costs this year, will be around $1.72 trillion, a 12% rise from its previous high of $1.53 trillion in 2020. For readers who are not familiar with the Food Outlook report, it's a bi-annual...

Former Vice President Al Gore spoke with President Joe Biden to plead that climate-change initiatives not be scaled back in a potential bipartisan infrastructure deal, the Washington Post reported Thursday night.Gore phoned Biden last month to insist on the inclusion of climate policies after being encouraged to do so by John Podesta, former chair of the liberal Center for American Progress think tank, Post sources said.[snip]The Post said Gore specifically pleaded with Biden to stop the planned (Byhalia Pipeline), which would transport crude oil for export through predominantly Black neighborhoods in southwest Memphis.

On Thursday, senior Democratic leaders issued a unified statement denouncing comments made by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) earlier this week when she equated so-called “crimes against humanity” by the United States and Israel to “unthinkable atrocities” by the Taliban and Hamas.We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity. We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban. I asked @SecBlinken where people are supposed to go for justice. pic.twitter.com/tUtxW5cIow— Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) June 7, 2021“Drawing false equivalencies between democracies like the U.S. and Israel...

During his first public speech in three months, former President Donald Trump spoke about the 2020 election, COVID-19 and his successor's administration. Some Americans focused on his attire, specifically the way Trump wore his pants. "Others are noting this, but it can't be shared enough: Donald Trump gave his speech today with his pants on backwards," a screengrab of a tweet shared on Instagram read. Accompanying the text is a cropped image of the front of Trump's pants. The image has been liked more than 75,000 times since it was posted on Instagram June 6. USA TODAY was unable to...

<p>Poor Greta Thunberg. It used to be so simple. When I was young, kids would just sing-song, “Fatty, fatty, two-by-four, can’t get through the bathroom door.” But now, we’re so beyond yo-mama-so-fat jokes that you almost can’t tell when someone really is being fat-shamed without a Demi-Lovato-Fro-Yomitor.</p>

Former Vice President Al Gore privately urged President Joe Biden to keep hundreds of billions of spending to subsidize green industries and even kill another proposed oil pipeline. Gore called Biden personally and demanded he include billions of climate spending in his infrastructure bill, according to a report in the Washington Post.

Taking sides in North Carolina is a sign he could do so in other states Former President Donald Trump’s recent endorsement in the North Carolina Senate race is the latest sign that he is looking to influence primaries in competitive states, in a shift from recent election cycles. During the 2018 and 2020 elections, Trump often supported Republican incumbents and the eventual GOP nominees in open races. But he rarely took sides in Senate primaries in targeted states. If the North Carolina race is any indication, that’s starting to change as Trump looks to wield his influence over the GOP...

Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats' plan to give the United States the highest corporate tax rates in the developed world will harm America’s economy, kill American jobs, and give China a leg up in their quest for world domination. If Biden and congressional Democrats get their way, our corporate tax rate would be substantially higher than Communist China’s rate. American workers would suffer the most as their jobs are exported abroad to lower taxes and lower cost nations. But it isn’t just corporate income taxes that the Democrats and Biden want to raise. They also want to raise taxes on...

Former President Donald Trump took a victory lap over the theory that the Chinese coronavirus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). It “came from Wuhan, it came from the lab,” he said in an exclusive interview this week. “I don’t have a question: ‘Did it come from the lab?’ I have a question, ‘Did they do it on purpose, or was it an accident?’” Most likely, the former president guesses, the virus escaped the Wuhan lab “through gross incompetence, and it got away from them [the Chinese authorities], and they panicked.” “I don’t think they knew what to...

Texas is to immediately begin building a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border in the state where illegal migrants have been pouring over and into the United States. In a statement announcing the move, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) blasted Joe Biden's administration and federal lawmakers for inaction on the U.S.'s immigration crisis.

Every single poor person on the face of the earth has faced some harm, sometimes catastrophic harm, from this lockdown policy.” Stanford University professor of medicine Jay Bhattacharya says that in years to come lockdowns will be looked back upon as the most catastrophically harmful policy in “all of history”. Speaking on The London Telegraph podcast ‘Planet Normal’, Bhattacharya noted that government scientific advisors “remain attached” to the policy of lockdown in spite of the total “failure of this strategy”. “I do think that future historians will look back on this and say this was the single biggest public health...

WASHINGTON, Monday, June 10. A visit to the Army Hospitals to-day gives gratifying assurance of the sanitary condition of the troops. There are now within this District something over 40,000 men. For the reception of patients from all the regiments there are three Hospitals. One is the infirmary, under the charge of the Sisters of Charity. In this there are about one hundred patients. In the Georgetown hospital, under the charge of Miss POWELL, there are sixty patients. At the hospital for contagious diseases, also under the charge of Miss POWELL, there are thirty patients. Here is a total of...

The Iranian regime's upcoming presidential election has essentially become a one-man show. Truly democratic elections in Iran, by Western democratic standards, are a unicorn. But, this year, the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is desperate to consolidate power by ensuring his top candidate gets the presidency. To do so, he removed rival factions who had congregated under the misleading rubric of "reformists." But his Guardian Council also axed lifelong cronies like Ali Larijani, signaling Khamenei's inflexibility and vulnerability in the face of mounting crises. Khamenei's pick, Ebrahim Raisi, is the current Judiciary Chief. He is now the only serious candidate in...

Wall Street trading will never be the same again. This “thing” they call the meme stocks, the Reddit Army, the Robin Hood traders -- it's not a fad. It’s real. And it has only just begun to change Wall Street forever. What happened? In the last few years, the friction that used to benefit the powerful in the system of trading stocks has been eliminated. And on top of that, social media has become widely adopted and used by bajillions of people around the world. The way this has changed things requires us to look at the way things were...

Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) raised $1 million for her nascent Senate bid in the day after she announced that she plans to challenge Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in 2022, according to a person familiar with the campaign’s fundraising. The $1 million figure is staggering for a candidate, especially in a year without any regularly scheduled federal elections. It’s an early sign of momentum for Demings, a rising Democratic star who is seen as the favorite in the budding primary to take on Rubio next year. But with 10 media markets and a population that exceeds that of New York state,...

The Texas bar association has opened an investigation into whether Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election amounted to professional misconduct he Texas bar association is investigating whether state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud amounted to professional misconduct. The State Bar of Texas initially declined to take up a Democratic Party activist’s complaint that Paxton’s petitioning of the U.S. Supreme Court to block Joe Biden’s victory was frivolous and unethical. But a tribunal that oversees grievances against lawyers overturned that decision...

It's not really your fault. The cabal that selected Joe Biden, knowing he wouldn't have any real power, conceded to his pandering notion that he had to have a black female vice president, giving Stacey Abrams/Maxine Waters/Sheila Jackson Lee/Frederica Wilson/Ayanna Pressley/Jamele Hill collective giggly vapors. The cabal, also knowing it wouldn't matter because the black female vice president wouldn't have any real power, either, said what the hell, and you were eenie-meenie-miney-moed. Considering all alternatives, you were the least bad choice. But now you're stuck, because you don't know what you're doing, and you know it. Everyone else knows it,...