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President Biden and first lady Jill Biden kicked out the British media — to get the pub garden table they wanted, video shows. Jon Sopel, the BBC’s North America editor, had been sitting on the patio of Treganna Castle in Cornwall on Thursday when he was seemingly surprised by the unexpected arrival of the commander-in-chief and his wife. “A first in my career. @POTUS comes and sits down at table in a bar next to me and orders a drink. Am trying to act nonchalant,” he tweeted alongside video of him shouting out, “How’s it going, Mr. President? Are you...

On Wednesday, while President Joe Biden was speaking before Air Force personnel in the United Kingdom, he had quite the senior moment, which is not atypical for the 78-year old. As the president began his remarks, it took him a moment before he realized that the military personnel in attendance were still standing, as he had not told them to sit down. He had already started telling a story when he noticed. "Please, at ease," Biden said. "I keep forgetting I'm president," he told the crowd. The service members did as they were told and sat down, while there was...

A Virginia mother who grew up under Chairman Mao Zedong’s communist regime in China slammed Critical Race Theory at the Loudoun County School Board Meeting this week, calling it “the American version of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.” “I am very alarmed by what’s going on in our schools,” Xi Van Fleet said at the school board meeting. “You are now teaching and training our children to be social justice warriors, and to loathe our country, and our history.” “Growing up in Mao’s China, all of this seems very familiar,” the mother continued. “The communist regime used the same critical theory...

An uplifting moment. Not all is lost... Game 6, round 2 - New York Islanders against Boston Bruins. Nicole Raviv leads the crowd as they sing the star spangled banner at The Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, NY. Footage belongs to NBC.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib blasted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic leadership for a statement they put out Thursday about Rep. Ilhan Omar 'Freedom of speech doesn't exist for Muslim women in Congress. The benefit of the doubt doesn't exist for Muslim women in Congress,' Tlaib tweeted Pelosi and top Democrats said Omar was fomenting 'prejudice' by drawing false equivalence between democracies like Israel and terrorist groups like Hamas Beyond support from her fellow 'Squad' member, the Congressional Progressive Caucus also came out in defense of Omar 'We cannot ignore a right-wing media echo chamber that has deliberately and routinely attacked...

In a Thursday interview with Univision, Vice President Kamala Harris was again asked about her absence at the U.S.-Mexico border since being tasked by President Biden with handling the illegal immigration crisis. One might think that the Vice President's aides might have prepared Harris to handle such questions after her widely-criticized interview with NBC's Lester Holt, but it doesn't appear that they did. "I said I'm going to go to the border," Harris told Univision host Ilia Calderón, repeating a line she's used repeatedly before that hasn't yet proven true. "When are you going to the border," interjected Calderón, seeking...

Apple's annual developer event showcases future software upgradesApple VIEW 7 IMAGES Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) has rolled around again, which means it's time for Apple to preview some of the changes coming to its software platforms later this year: iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and more. As usual, Apple executives had a host of improvements and upgrades to talk about at today's grand WWDC 2021 opening, many of which apply across numerous devices and OSes: the Notes app, for example, is getting support for custom tags and user mentions. Some of the major changes in the pipeline include updates...

An electrode coating just one molecule thick can significantly enhance the performance of an organic photovoltaic cell, KAUST researchers have found. The coating outperforms the leading material currently used for this task and may pave the way for improvements in other devices that rely on organic molecules, such as light-emitting diodes and photodetectors. Unlike the most common photovoltaic cells that use crystalline silicon to harvest light, organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs) rely on a light-absorbing layer of carbon-based molecules. Although OPVs cannot yet rival the performance of silicon cells, they could be easier and cheaper to manufacture at a very large...

A Texas man was driving a Lamborghini 141 mph in a 45 mph zone when the vehicle struck and killed a moped rider in the southwest Las Vegas Valley late Saturday, police said. Las Vegas police also say in an arrest report that the driver of the Lamborghini, Andrew James Rodriguez, 33, of New Braunfels, was suspected of alcohol impairment. He was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on suspicion of driving under the influence causing death, reckless driving and driving without a valid license. “I killed someone,” an investigating officer quoted Rodriguez as saying at the scene of...

The last time Americans were this unhappy about prices of big-ticket purchases was 1982, when the Federal Reserve was fighting a war against double-digit inflation. The University of Michigan’s survey of consumer sentiment showed U.S. consumers more concerned with higher prices of appliances, houses, and cars than anytime in 39 years, according to the survey’s chief economist Richard Curtin.

Amy Handleman was upset about Vice President Harris. "It's bad enough that the previously friendly mainstream media have been hectoring her about her alleged failure to visit our border with Mexico," she wailed, "but it has been even worse to learn that poor Kamala hasn't even been to Europe!" Amy paused briefly for breath, then continued, "It is essential that she go to Europe because she needs to fill out her presidential credentials by meeting with our NATO allies and taking tea with Vladimir Putin. "She needs to show she can hold her own with that despot … maybe tell...

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The variant, which first emerged in India, is already the dominant strain in the UK. Researchers are working to uncover the secrets of its success. ============================================================================ Covid cases are on the rise in England, and a fast-spreading variant may be to blame. B.1.617.2, which now goes by the name Delta, first emerged in India, but has since spread to 62 countries, according to the World Health Organization. Delta is still rare in the US. At a press conference on Tuesday, the White House’s chief medical advisor, Anthony Fauci, said that it accounts for just 6% of cases. But in the...

Update (2000ET): 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.The new details about myocarditis and pericarditis emerged first in presentations to a panel of independent advisers for the Food and Drug Administration, who are meeting Thursday to discuss how the regulator should approach emergency use authorization for using COVID-19 vaccines in younger children.As CBS reports, the CDC previously disclosed that reports of heart inflammation were detected mostly...

Cohen intimated that his agency blew up Iran’s underground centrifuge facility at Natanz, gave a precise description of the 2018 operation in which the Mossad stole Iran’s nuclear archive from safes in a Tehran warehouse, confirmed that Iran’s assassinated top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh had been in Mossad’s sights for years, and said the regime needs to understand that Israel means what it says when it vows to prevent Iran attaining nuclear weapons. In what would appear to be the most revelatory interview ever given by a Mossad chief so close to the end of his active service, Cohen, who...

Officially called the "2018–20 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament," that mouthful is traditionally pared down to "Euro 2020" or, even more succinctly, the "Euros." This is the 16th edition of the tournament, which is designed to crown the top international team in all of Europe. After years of qualifying matches, we're down to the final 24 teams, broken into six groups of four for the group stage.

A third member of a panel of outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has resigned in protest over the agency’s decision to approve Biogen Inc’s Alzheimer’s disease treatment despite the committee’s recommendation against doing so. Aaron Kesselheim, a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School who had served on the FDA’s advisory committee for nervous system drugs since 2015, told Reuters on Thursday he was stepping down from the panel. “My rationale was that the FDA needs to re-evaluate how it solicits and uses the advisory committees … because I didn’t think that the firm recommendations from...

As we move into the second half of 2021, interest rates and the dollar continue to shape the outlook. Of course, much of the debate focuses on whether rates and the dollar continue to miss the bigger picture. For example, just recently, Jim Bianco tweeted a critical point. However, while I very much respect his opinion, I am not sure I entirely agree. Such is where the analysis of rates and the dollar suggests a different story. The Inflation PremiseWe previously discussed that inflation might indeed be more transitory given the drivers of increased prices were artificial. (i.e., stimulus, semi-conductor...

Remember last spring when University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researcher Bing Liu was found dead inside his home, just days after it was speculated that he was on the “verge of making very significant” discoveries about the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19)? Could it be that Bing was planning to blow the lid on the alleged lab origins of the virus?NBC News reported on May 5 of last year that Bing had at the time just uncovered something very important that would help in “understanding the cellular mechanisms that underlie” the Chinese Virus. What could these “cellular mechanism” have been that...

Last April, we reported that foreign scientists had uncovered AIDS insertions inside the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19), pointing to it being an engineered bioweapon rather than a random act of nature. Now, we have more evidence showing that Tony Fauci threatened many of these scientists to withdraw their research or else he would try to destroy their careers. ========================================================================== Great Game India was among the first to publish some of these studies, which drew such intense criticism that the authors ended up retracting them. Since that time, leaked Fauci emails show that it was Fauci himself who issued threats against these...