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The Port of Los Angeles announced Tuesday that it had earned the distinction as the first port in the Western Hemisphere to handle more than 1 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in a single month. May was the busiest month in the 114-year history of the United States’ busiest port. The Port of LA moved a total of 1,012,248 TEUs, up 74% from May 2020, when COVID-19 had stalled global trade. The Port of Long Beach and South Carolina Ports Authority last week also reported record Mays. And the Georgia Ports Authority announced it had had 10 consecutive months of...

A Fox Business contributor wasn’t having it with the money printing-obsessed Federal Reserve raising its inflation target and moving up expectations for an interest rate hike only in 2023. Kaltbaum Capital Management owner and president Gary Kaltbaum tore into the Fed for its money-grows-on-trees behavior. Kaltbaum stated during the June 16 edition of Making Money with Charles Payne: “We’ve been hearing for years their inflation target of 2 percent, and now it's 3.6 [percent]. And last I looked, we’re in June of 2021, and they’re talking about what they’re going to do in 2023.” He did not let up: “I...

Shaw Somers, a consultant surgeon who specialises in weight-loss operations, has been treating people with severe obesity for many years. He says people like Sarah, who have an inherited set of certain genes, are much more likely to develop obesity compared with those who don't. Historically, he says, people with these genetics would have done well in a famine, but with today's plentiful, high-calorie food they will put on weight "without strong determination and support". Dr Denise Ratcliffe, a clinical psychologist...says that many of the people she sees, have experienced trauma, abuse or neglect, for example, which leads to a...

A TOP-FLOOR tenant sparked a £3,000 clean up operation by hurling a mountain of soiled toilet paper out of his window as passers-by walked below. Neighbour-from-hell John Cameron claimed he was scared of flushing his toilet and was choosing to dump the used toilet roll out of his window instead. Cameron threw a mountain of soiled toilet paper out of his window 2 Cameron threw a mountain of soiled toilet paper out of his windowCredit: Perthshire Picture Agency Perth Sheriff Court was told today that specialist equipment costing £3,000 had to be hired to tackle the pile of filth outside...

For several decades now, politicians around the world have tried to curtail tax competition to make it easier for them to increase the tax burdens on their citizens without them fleeing to other lower-tax jurisdictions. The best way to achieve their goal is to create a global high-tax cartel. If implemented, the recent G7 countries' agreement to impose minimum taxes on multinational companies would get them much closer to this shady objective. It's no mystery why politicians don't like tax competition. In a global economy like ours, individuals and businesses are better able to work and invest in nations with...

A Republican congressman called for Congress to repeal the Iraq War authorization and close the massive U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad on Wednesday. Both the war authorization and the embassy compound played a role in the near war between the United States and Iran last year. Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) called the president’s war powers “disturbingly broad” in a Wednesday morning floor speech as he urged members to repeal the 2002 authorization for the use of military force. That law, also known as the AUMF, was originally passed to authorize the war to overthrow Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, but gives...

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Records suggest more than 100 batches of absentee ballots in Fulton County could be missing. Some experts see "election tabulation malpractice" as state officials seek to remove county's top election supervisors. ... The memos reviewed by Just the News include the handwritten tally sheets for all absentee ballots counted by [Fulton] county as well as a private report from a contractor hired by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to monitor the Atlanta-area election process. The report, which chronicled seven days of problems, recorded troubling behavior like the mysterious removal of a suitcase of sensitive election data known as polls pads,...

For a half-century, a small radical fringe has undermined our trust in institutions. A new AP-NORC poll shows 28 percent of Americans feel they have just one person they trust to help them navigate work challenges or connect with an employer. Meanwhile, leftist politics feed an angry mob of American so-called "peaceful protesters" or the reactive "insurrectionists." As a result, our American experiment is in great peril. Suddenly, the American landscape looks and feels like the world we freely allowed inside our open borders. A world filled with lawlessness, lack of self-restraint, and unparalleled agitprop. Like a Bunsen burner, a...

Dear friends, the "Fake News" Virus and Epidemic is running rampant throughout the "Land of the Free" today (via the EXPONENTIAL lawless media outlets of our day), attacking and slandering ANY who adhere to Judeo/ Christian values and conservative principles and policies based on the laws of nature and nature's GOD! Of course, there is a wide spectrum in that group; but the more Bible-believing, Christian, conservative and American loving you are; the more the "Fake News" virus seems to want to attack and destroy you! This godless, lawless and anarchic strain originates from the god of this world who...

Virginia residents who want to do right by the planet are confronted with a bewildering array of renewable energy and “green power” options. Unfortunately, few of these programs actually deliver renewable energy. People who want the gold standard — electricity from new wind and solar projects — are completely out of luck if their utility is Dominion Energy Virginia or Appalachian Power. To understand how there can be so many options and none of them good, we first have to talk about renewable energy certificates. RECs are a topic that is way more interesting than it sounds because — well,...

The Supreme Court unanimously overturned a lower court ruling that allowed the City of Philadelphia to ban Catholic Social Services from participating in the city's foster care program, saying the city violated the organization's First Amendment rights.

MOSCOW (CBS SF/AP) — Ukrainian police say they have uncovered a ring of computer hackers responsible for cyberattacks that included targeting personal data and financial records at the Stanford University Medical School and the University of California. Six members of the gang, known as Cl0p, were arrested and a number of computers, cars and about $185,000 in cash was seized. The hackers also allegedly attacked four South Korean companies in 2019 with an encryption virus that blocked internal servers and employees’ computers.

On April 19, the Vancouver Sun printed an article about the COVID-linked death of an infant under two years old. Dr. Bonnie Henry, British Columbia’s provincial health officer, lamented that the infant’s tragic death “reminds us of the vicious nature of this virus.” The kicker, which Henry failed to mention, is that this was the very first COVID-19 death under the age of 30 in a province with a population of over 5 million. It turns out it was inside the BC Children’s Hospital that the child caught its infection—“behind the doors of a government institution,” as Julius Ruechel in...

You remember Lois Lerner, she of the incredible IRS Tea Party targeting scandal that roiled Congress and the nation in 2013 and exposed how Democratic activists in the federal bureaucracy were overtly using their positions against those they perceived as their political enemies.But this time, the Lois Lerner character in the erupting scandal is being played by Stephen A. Martin, Director of the federal tax agency’s Exempt Organizations, Rulings and Agreements, in Cincinnati. That’s the same office Lerner tried to make the scapegoat for the arcane political manipulation perpetrated by her and other higher-ups in Washington, D.C.When Christians Engaged of...

The Federal Reserve indicated Wednesday it may raise interest rates sooner than previously anticipated as the United States comes out of the coronavirus pandemic. But Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell played down expectations, claiming discussion of the change at the Federal Reserve is highly premature. The central bank forecasts it would raise interest rates twice by the end of 2023 after previously estimating there would be no interest rate hike until 2024.

We’ve all seen the movie. The first human mission to Mars descends towards the ochre-coloured surface on a roaring column of rocket thrust. After touching down, the astronauts clamber down the ladder, plant a flag in the soil and snap some photos of their footprints.We’ve done it on the Moon, so why not Mars? Aside from all the hazards that would need to be accounted for in order to ensure astronauts survive the journey to Mars, (such as exposure to cosmic radiation and the effects of space on human genes), the landing itself could actually be pretty problematic.Philip Metzger and...

A report has emerged that major Russian naval maneuvers were underway in the Pacific when U.S. Air Force F-22A Raptor stealth fighters were scrambled from their base in Hawaii over the weekend, an incident you can read more about in The War Zone’s initial reporting. The Raptors were supposedly launched to investigate unspecified Russian long-range aircraft, part of a group of naval vessels and aircraft that were participating in a large-scale exercise around 300 to 500 miles west of the Hawaiian islands. The incident came immediately ahead of today’s summit meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir...

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Thursday gave high marks to President Joe Biden for his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G7 summit in Geneva, Switzerland. Scarborough noted Biden and his administration were able to “push back on Russian aggression,” which contrasted with the previous administration.

In his never-ending advocacy for environmental extremists, President Joe Biden has issued one dictator-like ruling after another, specifically targeting Alaska and ruining economic opportunities for our hard-working families. No other state has been singled out like Alaska in Biden’s radical agenda, and perhaps no other senator has been as complicit in the assault on her own constituents as Lisa Murkowski. In exchange for the approval of Washington, D.C. insiders and the praise of the corporate news media, Murkowski opposed President Donald Trump in both of his campaigns and fought him throughout his presidency. In doing so, she helped pave the...