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A Donald Trump supporter has been banned in all 30 Major League ballparks after being ejected for unfurling 'Trump Won' banners at several games this year Dion Cini, 52, has been seen hanging his banners at New York's Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, Boston's Fenway Park, and Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park In each instance he says he was ejected, but claims he was told he could return Cini received a June 11 letter from MLB banning him for unfurling the banner at recent games and for encouraging others to do the same in his absence Cini responded to his indefinite...

Andy Murray tonight delighted scores of fans at Wimbledon with a logic-defying four-hour comeback win. The three-time Grand Slam winner secured his victory in the Men's Singles Second Round against German opponent Oscar Otte, making an astonishing recovery to take three sets following a tense and tumultuous fight. It was the father-of-four's second win after his return to Centre Court on Monday, when Murray knocked Georgian tennis pro Nikoloz Basilashvili out of Wimbledon in one of the most extraordinary performances of his career.

Bill will remove statues and busts of Confederacy supporters from Congress It includes a bust of Roger Taney, the U.S. chief justice best known for his Dred Scott pro-slavery decision The statue of the President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis will also go Democrats were unanimous in their support for the bill and were joined by 67 Republicans, with the bill passed by a vote of 285-120 The GOP members who voted against the bill said it was whitewashing history The vote came after House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy accused Democrats on the House Floor of trying to hide their...

NEW YORK — A grand jury in Manhattan filed criminal indictments Wednesday against former President Trump’s company and its longtime chief financial officer, according to two people familiar with the indictments. The indictments against the Trump Organization and its CFO, Allen Weisselberg, will remain sealed until Thursday afternoon, leaving the specific charges against them unclear. Earlier Wednesday, people familiar with the case said the charges were related to allegations of unpaid taxes on benefits for Trump Organization executives. Weisselberg is expected to surrender Thursday morning at the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., a Democrat, two people...

Parents and teachers across the country are denouncing critical race theory as racist indoctrination of innocent children. Idaho public officials, however, consider their conservative state to be immune to the progressive education movement, arguing “It's not happening here.” Meanwhile, 14 Idaho public school teachers are defending pushing CRT on students. The Zinn Education Project created a national petition that has collected thousands of signatures from teachers pledging to violate state laws that ban critical race theory in public schools, including 14 signatures (and counting) from Idaho teachers. The petition states that Idaho’s law aims “to prohibit teachers from teaching the...

GOP members of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Select Coronavirus Crisis hold a hearing examining the possible origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

I spent the first 12 years of my life in rural Florida, where my best friend was a black boy from Trinidad. Like most other children, the two of us didn’t talk about race or fret about our obvious differences. That’s despite having grown up in the South, where segregation was hardly a distant memory. We just enjoyed playing together and nerding out over old episodes of “Star Trek.” How times have changed. For longer than many have realized, the Left has been quietly working to indoctrinate young minds into believing that our country is built on discrimination. They say...

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has indicated he does not currently plan to charge the Trump Organization with crimes related to allegations of "hush money" payments and real estate value manipulations, according to a personal lawyer for Donald Trump. Ronald Fischetti, a New York attorney who represents the former president, said on Monday that in a meeting last week, he asked Vance’s team for details on charges they were considering. According to Fischetti, members of Vance’s team said they were considering bringing charges against the Trump Organization and its individual employees related to alleged failures to pay taxes on corporate...

A Mendocino cafe that has repeatedly pushed back against public health mandates during the pandemic, including charging customers who wear face coverings a $5 fee, will close this weekend, owner Chris Castleman confirmed. He did not agree to Fiddleheads Cafe’s new lease offer, which requested that he comply with government mandates and no longer post “controversial signage or writings.” Castleman said he is being unfairly targeted due to his political beliefs. But the landlord said it wasn’t driven by ideological differences — since the cafe went viral nationally for Castleman’s tactics, the landlord said they have faced harassment from his...

It’s truly amazing to look back on the last year. If you watched a movie that had this plot you would probably reject it as more implausible than Godzilla vs. Kong. Plot Synopsis: The world is brought low by a virus built in a Chinese bio-weapons laboratory, but most politicians refuse to admit it because they hate the sitting President and view any admission of the truth as bolstering his long-standing opposition to the Chinese. The primary election is fought viciously by a number of small factions. When no one gains a clear lead the ex-President calls on all candidates...

There are a lot of people in the world and chances are you have seen the same people multiple times on different occasions but each time you see them, they are like a new person to you because you do not remember seeing them all the times before. For example, I've been taking the 6:46am train out of Westport, CT for years now to head into Manhattan. I have probably seen the same people waiting on the platform with me hundreds of times. In cold weather and hot weather (such as this morning). Yet if I saw them walking down...

Israel reported its highest daily coronavirus infection rate in three months on Wednesday, with 293 people testing positive for the virus while efforts to curb the spread of the delta variant continue. However, the number of severe COVID cases in Israel remains low. The delta variant was first discovered in India and is considered highly contagious.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel blasted Sen. Ron Johnson (R) in an editorial published on Wednesday, calling the firebrand conservative lawmaker the most "irresponsible representative of Wisconsin citizens" since Sen. Joe McCarthy (R). "The Republican senator highlighted five people who said they had serious side effects from the life-saving COVID-19 vaccines. Their stories were sad, to be sure, and we don’t doubt their veracity. But they represent only a tiny fraction of the people who have been vaccinated," the newspaper's editorial board wrote. "But instead of encouraging more people to get vaccinated so we can be rid of this plague once...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) lashed out at her Jewish House Democratic colleagues during a CNN interview Tuesday, claiming that they “haven’t been partners in justice.” During Omar’s appearance on “The Lead,” host Jake Tapper cited some of the congresswoman’s statements that have led to accusations that she is anti-Semitic. Tapper specifically cited a February 2019 tweet that stated the alliance between the US and Israel is “all about the Benjamins” and a 2012 message in which she claimed that Israel “has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel”. “Do you...

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A 7-year-old boy died Tuesday when taken off life support after sustaining severe brain damage during a judo class in which he was repeatedly thrown to prove he wasn’t up to the challenge of martial arts. The Taiwanese child, identified only as Wei Wei, had been on life support for close to 70 days since the April 21 incident, according to local media outlets. On Tuesday, after Fengyuan Hospital doctors informed the boy’s family that both his blood pressure and heart rate levels were dropping, they chose to remove him from life support, the BBC reported. The child’s uncle filmed...

When it comes to the debate over pro-abortion Catholic politicians receiving communion, one Catholic bishop says if they can’t even vote against a bill to stop infanticide, there’s nothing to talk about. The comments from Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles Robert Barron come at a time when the nation’s bishops have just voted on a plan to create a new document related to communion in public life that could be used to rebuke Joe Biden and other pro-abortion Catholic politicians who flout the Church’s pro-life teachings. The document could be written in a way to encourage pro-abortion Catholic politicians to...

The city’s bumbling Board of Elections said Wednesday that Eric Adams maintained his lead in the city’s Democratic mayoral primary — one day after officials threw the race into chaos with a botched count. Preliminary results posted on the embattled election agency’s website showed Adams narrowly ahead of Kathryn Garcia, 358,521 votes (51.1 percent} to 343,766 (48.9 percent). In an ironic twist, the percentages are identical to the ones reported Tuesday, when Garcia overtook Maya Wiley to vault into second place pending the counting of absentee ballots.

"It's good to have AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and other vaccines so that prices are reasonable and Europe is not subject to a vaccine monopoly that may be in the process of being created." In the meantime, a dispute has been brewing in the EU over the potential use of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, which was initially the subject of doubts over its clinical data and safety standards and has more recently been seen as a geopolitical tool by Russia which has sold the vaccine to various countries around the world, mainly to its allies. Interim analysis of phase...

Terrorists are reportedly attempting to enter the U.S. through the southern border as they blend in with migrants. In an article for Foreign Policy magazine last week, Panama’s foreign minister said Kamala Harris is ignoring a key aspect of the migrant crisis in her role as border czar. According to the official, terrorists and extremists attempt to pass through her country everyday on their journey to the U.S. Earlier this week, a group of House Republicans introduced a resolution to censure Joe Biden for his inaction on the U.S.-Mexico border. “Biden’s border crisis is a humanitarian crisis and it all...