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When rangers kayaked to Arizona’s Antelope Canyon they were greeted by the lingering stench of sewage — and hundreds of feet of graffiti. Glen Canyon National Recreation Area officials said Sunday that rangers found and removed 550 square feet of graffiti at Antelope Canyon. “They removed 550 square feet of graffiti while talking to visitors about the importance of respecting the rock and each other, by not defacing the natural beauty of Antelope Canyon with graffiti and human waste,” Glen Canyon rangers said in a Facebook post.

French bishop tells faithful protesting departure of FSSP from their diocese that their priests must concelebrate the Novus Ordo'You would have done better to demonstrate before your priests and ask them: why are you stuck on such a little thing?' Archbishop Roland Minnerath told faithful who gathered in a peaceful demonstration in front of his archiepiscopal palace on Saturday morning.ANALYSISDIJON, France, June 30, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — In a new development regarding the expulsion of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) from its apostolate in Dijon, in the east of France, Archbishop Roland Minnerath agreed to speak in-person to several...

Twitter is poking fun at President Joe Biden for stumbling on his "note cards" during a meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.

In the wake of the VTA rail yard mass shooting in May, the San Jose City Council unanimously passed two first-in-the-nation gun control measures that are already creating controversy. One measure requires all gun owners to obtain liability insurance for their firearms, and a second measure requires all gun owners in the city to pay an annual tax that would go towards emergency services responding to gun-related calls. San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said the measure is an attempt to compensate taxpayers for the costs of gun violence. “While the Second Amendment protects the right to bear arms, it does...

Donald Rumsfeld, who charted an impressive Washington career serving under four presidents but whose legacy largely was defined by his controversial tenure as defense secretary during the Iraq war, has died, his family announced Wednesday. He was 88. Rumsfeld, a confident adviser to power with a trenchant style that made him admirers as well as enemies, had a long and winding career in public life that spanned five decades. He had been a congressman and a White House chief of staff, and had a successful corporate career, too. But it was his second term as secretary of Defense from 2001...

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Donald Trump visited the US-Mexico border in Weslaco, Texas Wednesday with Governor Abbott. Trump held a security briefing with Governor Abbott before touring the border. Trump spoke about his administration’s work in securing the border and blamed Biden for the current crisis. Then he roasted vegetable Biden, saying he cannot pass a cognitive test.

The U.N.-sponsored global gathering for gender equality generated about $40 billion in pledges towards aiding women and girls on Wednesday, partly fueled by a significant $2.1 billion contribution from Bill and Melinda Gates’ namesake foundation. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said it will spend the money in the next five years on health and family planning programs, economic empowerment projects and other initiatives. The $40 billion was pledged by various stakeholders, UN Women said, calling the commitments the “largest-ever collective infusion of resources into global gender equality.” Some of the pledges come from other foundations, including the Ford Foundation,...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that the debate over whether climate change is real needs to stop because it was “happening” and “incredibly dangerous.” Co-host Joy Behar said, “I’m going to throw my question out and ask you, what about climate change? What are we doing about this? This is, to me, the most urgent question of the decade, of the century maybe. Look at these people in the northwest of this country, 115 degrees in part of Canada. I mean, what is going on with that? Are you guys going to fix that or...

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Ohio Democrats furiously pound their desks and yell as Rep. Jena Powell proposes an amendment to add a bill banning biological males from female sports teams to the "Name, Image, Likeness Bill."https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1409964655334723587

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Gov. Kate Brown and leaders from across the state held a Reopening Oregon event at Providence Park late Wednesday morning.Brown honored those who died from COVID-19 and celebrate those who saved lives and supported Oregonians over the past 16 months.“We took unprecedented action to accomplish an unprecedented mission – to do everything we could to protect Oregonians and save lives,” Brown said.“This is truly a historic moment for our state. However, while we enter a new chapter today, our work is far from over,” she said.A series of speakers included OHA Director Patrick Allen and OHSU...

A Black Lives Matter rioter who smashed a car window in a 1-year-old child’s face has avoided prison after his lawyer argued that it was a “very emotional time” for the culprit.Yes, really.A video from the incident, which occurred in Fredericksburg VA during last year’s George Floyd riots, shows a BLM mob surrounding the vehicle before Victor Miles II smashes the glass which shatters all over the child in the back seat.The clip appears to show Miles deliberately targeting the toddler.https://twitter.com/AntifaWatch2/status/1409866038628519944For this despicable act, Miles received a suspended sentence of just 90 days for assault and destruction of property charges...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Tuesday his department views everything through an “equity” lens and “every” transportation decision is about “justice.” Buttigieg was in Syracuse, New York, to tout an infrastructure package at I-81, where planners intend to “replace the I-81 viaduct with a grid of ground-level streets and reroute high-speed traffic to I-481.” “Jobs, safety, prosperity, racial justice cannot be separated from transportation,” Buttigieg said during a news conference, according to NNY360. “That’s part of why we’re here. Every decision about transportation is necessarily a decision about justice.”

In the end, we didn’t crush the virus, but we did crush a lot of ordinary people.Did lockdowns take more lives than they saved? It’s an important question. Earlier this month, the Rand Corporation and the University of Southern California, working on behalf of the National Bureau of Economic Research, released a working paper to ascertain just that.Most casual news consumers might not have heard about it, and that’s not surprising because here’s what they found:We find that following the implementation of shelter-in-place policies, excess mortality increases. … We failed to find that countries or U.S. states that implemented [shelter...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal law enforcement agencies secretly seek the data of Microsoft customers thousands of times a year Tom Burt, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for customer security and trust, told members of the House Judiciary Committee that federal law enforcement in recent years has been presenting the company with between 2,400 to 3,500 secrecy orders a year, or about seven to 10 a day. “Most shocking is just how routine secrecy orders have become when law enforcement targets an American’s email, text messages or other sensitive data stored in the cloud,” said Burt, describing the widespread clandestine surveillance as...

The AirCar Prototype 1, which has a 160 horsepower fixed-propeller engine, is the brain child of Professor Stefan Klein and was developed by Slovakian firm KleinVision. Amazing footage shows it driving down a runway before soaring into the air. It then lands, folds away its wings and is driven along a motorway before arriving in the heart of the Slovakian capital. The 35-minute flight from Nitra to Bratislava was a key development milestone and moves it closer to going into production, KleinVision said. Developers say the AirCar – which has now completed more than 40 hours of test flights –...

Airplane! (1980) is a fun spoof comedy with lots of laughs, right? I watched this film on Netflix for the first time the other night. Instantly, I recognized so many references and clips that I had previously heard and seen. At every turn, it’s filled with great gags that are so incredibly clever and intelligently crafted. Even for someone watching it for the first time all these years later, I loved it. Then came the racist jokes. I think it’s easy for people to dismiss this as being a “product of its time.” I agree, but that doesn’t excuse the...

Gen. Mark Milley’s greatest fear is upsetting the woke mob. When Black Lives Matter rioters were threatening to destroy Washington, D.C., he practically begged me not to send in the military to stop the riots. Milley later issued an embarrassing and groveling apology for walking at my side to St. John’s Church, which far-left rioters almost burned to the ground the day before. Instead of denouncing the rioters, he denounced himself—a humiliation for our Military. A year later even the Fake News had to admit that their Lafayette Square narrative was a giant lie. Milley, once again, looked like a...

Joe Manchin, West Virginia's senior senator and arguably the last of Appalachia's pro-labor, pro-family Blue Dog Democrats, recently visited the southern border to see the surge of migrants firsthand. Over 172,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended in March alone, the highest total for March in over 20 years. Although he agreed that the border surge is indeed a crisis, his disheartening takeaway was to propose amnesty as a solution. Offering amnesty to people here illegally -- no matter how sympathetic their stories might be -- would only incentivize more unlawful border crossings. A continued influx of illegal immigrants would hurt the...