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KEY POINTS President Joe Biden is set to sign a bill establishing Juneteenth, the date marking the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are slated to deliver remarks in the East Room, according to the White House. Juneteenth National Independence Day will become the 12th legal public holiday, and the first new one since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was signed into law in 1983 by then-President Ronald Reagan. ========================================================================== President Joe Biden is set to sign on Thursday a bill establishing Juneteenth, the date marking the end of...

At a press conference following his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva , President Biden disputed a journalist’s characterization of Chinese President Xi Jinping as an “old friend” who might be persuaded to allow an international investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. “Let’s get something straight — we know each other well, we’re not old friends,” Biden said. “It’s just pure business.” Fox News reporter Peter Doocy pressed Biden on whether his long-standing relationship with the Chinese leader could help the United States and other nations try to find out how, as researchers believe, the pandemic...

I called trying to get some answers for the horrible service the USPS is still giving ( missing checks/packages, etc). Local post office is frustrated and said consumer affairs knows the situation. They acted like it was a waste of time to call. I called one of my senatorial swamp creatures office (D) and got a peon. They still are playing politics. They were talking about adding sorting machines and overtime. Covid and union crap. I don't see it getting better.

The United States Supreme Court issued their ruling today in a major lawsuit from 18 states that challenged the Affordable Care Act put in place by former President Barack Obama. This might come to a devastating blow to a vast number of Americans paying higher than normal premiums and/deductibles, but the Supreme Court ruled in a decision, 7-2, that Texas and the 17 other states “lacked standing to challenge its constitutionality.” The lawsuit also included two individuals who stood against the healthcare program that many Americans sometimes stated was overpriced and under-performing compared to their previous health insurances. In other...

First-time unemployment claims surprisingly rose to a month-long high as the U.S. economy faces an ongoing labor shortage under the Biden administration. According to the Department of Labor, 412,000 Americans filed for initial jobless benefits last week, marking the highest level in a month. Economists expected just 360,000 new claims. The rise in claims comes days after a Labor Department report showed that U.S. job openings reached a record high 9.3 million in April. Employers hired just 6.1 million people during the same period, meaning one in three postings went unfilled. Jobless claims particularly grew in California and Pennsylvania, two...

RIO GRANDE CITY, TX—Trump flew to America's southern border this week to announce a brand-new Trump hotel unlike anything the world has ever seen. The planned hotel will be almost 2,000 miles long and will be situated right on the southern border. "Yes folks, I'm proud to announce we are building a big, beautiful, golden Trump hotel on the southern border," said Trump to reporters. "Land just happens to be really cheap down here, what can I say? The border just looks terrible ever since Sleepy Joe 'Loserface' Biden stole the presidency from me. Just a disgrace. I'll bet he...

The websites of several US airlines, including American, Southwest, United and Delta — along with those of other companies and financial institutions — went down Thursday, hours after the summit between President Biden and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, where the two discussed ending cyberattacks. In the second global internet outage in as many weeks, more than 1,000 user reports indicated problems at Southwest, with over 400 reports indicating the same for Delta, Reuters reported, citing website tracker Downdetector.com. That number was about 300 for the other two US carriers.

Victoria's Secret has done away with their world-famous Angels supermodels. The lingerie and comfort wear company has said goodbye to the models, who have for years, famously strutted down the runway wearing over-the-top ensembles featuring feathers and rhinestones that weighed in at nearly 30 pounds, the New York Times reports. In their place, Victoria's Secret has launched a campaign with high-profile women known for their accomplishments rather than their figures. Soccer star Megan Rapinoe, freestyle skier Eileen Gu, model and advocate Paloma Essler, actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas, transgender model Valentina Sampaio, model and South Sudanese refugee Adut Akech and photographer...

In a resounding bipartisan vote, the House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday making Juneteenth, the day commemorating the official end of slavery in the United States, a federal holiday. The final vote on the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act was 415-14, and the bill now heads to President Biden’s desk for signature into law. “We cannot change the future if we do not recognize the past,” Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus said on the House Floor ahead of the vote. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., said passage of the holiday was “long overdue.” “This comes...

‘Stop Asian hate’ tried to get resurrected by NBC News. After weeks of dying due to not fitting the narrative, there’s some brand-new study saying that most perpetrators of anti-Asian violence are white. The headline itself is a doozy and the data is even shoddier (via NBC News):Janelle Wong, a professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, released analysis last week that drew on previously published studies on anti-Asian bias. She found official crime statistics and other studies revealed more than three-quarters of offenders of anti-Asian hate crimes and incidents, from both before and during the...

USCCB Meeting: Debate Erupts Over Allowing Unlimited Debate on Proposal to Draft Document on EucharistThe controversy over the document, which intends to touch the issue of reception of Communion by Catholic politicians who promote legal abortion within a broader context of Eucharistic coherence, overtook this week’s USCCB spring assembly meeting almost as soon as it started.WASHINGTON — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) spring general assembly got underway with some immediate controversy Wednesday as a vigorous debate arose over what is usually a routine vote to approve the meeting agenda. The meeting, held in a virtual format due...

A Canadian pastor has been arrested after his church held an outdoor worship service at an undisclosed location after the local government ordered the church building to be closed.Tim Stephens, who serves as pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Calgary, Alberta, was arrested Monday after refusing to abide by the order from Alberta Health Services to refrain from holding worship services that don't comply with the provincial COVID-19 rules.On Monday, Stephens shared on his Twitter account that “I just got a tip that the police may be on their way to arrest me.” I just got a tip that the...

More than 350 Indonesian doctors and healthcare workers have contracted COVID-19 despite being vaccinated with Sinovac and dozens have been hospitalised, officials said, as concerns rise about the efficacy of some vaccines against more virulent virus variants. Most were asymptomatic and self-isolating at home, said Badai Ismoyo, head of the Kudus district health office in Central Java, but dozens were in hospital with high fevers and declining oxygen saturation levels. Kudus is battling an outbreak believed to be driven by the more transmissible Delta variant which has pushed bed occupancy rates above 90% in the district. Designated as a priority...

A youth scouting group formed in response to the controversial changes within the Boy Scouts of America has reported an increase in the number of chapters during the pandemic. Trail Life USA , launched in 2014 and headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, is reporting dozens of new chapters and more than 30,000 members. Trail Life USA CEO Mark Hancock told The Christian Post that 65 new troops have been created thus far in 2021, with over 100 in the process of being chartered. “So far this year, we have seen a 70% increase in new members over this time last...

The Federal Reserve has been bleating that inflation is "transitory"--but what about the real world that we live in, as opposed to the abstract funhouse of rigged statistics? Here's a simple test to help you decide if inflation is "transitory" in the real world. Let's start with some simple stipulations: price is price, there are no tricks like hedonics or substitution. Nobody cares if the truck stereo is better than it was 40 years ago, the price of the truck is the price we pay today, and that's all that matters. (Funny, the funhouse statistical adjustments never consider that appliances...

As questions about the January 6 Capitol protests mount, something very bad is afoot. A police state is taking shape. It is being suggested (and I agree) that the FBI had paid informants among the Capitol protesters who actually helped plan the protests and encouraged violence. It is unsettling to entertain the possibility that the federal government knew of a potential for violence on 1/6 and did nothing to stop it. It presents the question: why would agencies, or certain elements within, sit back and let something like this happen on purpose? A still more disturbing possibility arises from a...

A judge has ruled that Colorado Christian baker Jack Phillips violated state anti-discrimination law by refusing to bake a pink-and-blue transgender birthday cake. Denver District Court Judge A. Bruce Jones ruled Tuesday that Phillips violated the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act by refusing to make the cake for Autumn Scardina. In his opinion, Jones concluded that Phillips engaged in unlawful discrimination by denying “goods and services" because of Scardina's "transgender status." The ruling states that Phillips' wife had initially agreed to make a pink cake with blue frosting for about six to eight people. But the cake was rejected after Scardina disclosed...

North Korean leader King Jong-un is on a diet. That’s the best guess of experts in South Korea who make a living talking and writing about Dear Leader’s health and appearance. Well… it’s a living. These experts say that if the weight loss was health-related, there would be other noticeable symptoms. Associated Press: "In recent state media images, including those published on Wednesday, Kim appeared to have lost a large amount of weight. The strap on his fancy watch is tighter, and his face thinner. Some observers say Kim — who is about 170 centimeters (5 feet, 8 inches) tall...

It is such an obvious attempt to try to crush political dissent, you wonder if they thought no one was paying attention.The Biden administration just released a “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.” It calls for abuses of state power to combine elements of totalitarian government with social and cultural engineering. They decided the Constitution and those pesky old individual liberties won’t stop them from making America the Wokest Place on Earth.It is such an obvious attempt to try to crush political dissent, you wonder if they thought no one was paying attention. If you aren’t, you need to be,...

The District’s newest elected advisory neighborhood commissioner is believed to be the first incarcerated person to win office in the nation’s capital. Joel Castón, 44, has been locked up for 26 years, since being convicted of killing an 18-year-old man in a shooting in a D.C. parking lot. While incarcerated, he has served as a Christian worship leader, a financial literacy instructor, and the founding mentor of the Young Men Emerging program. He also wrote a memoir and learned Arabic and Mandarin. On Tuesday, Castón won an an ANC seat that had been vacant since its creation in 2013. He...