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U.S.—America is celebrating today after the Biden administration announced that people will save a full 16 cents on their cookouts this year. While this has been welcome news for most, it has also exposed the dark underbelly of America's continuing struggle against gender inequality. This is because for every 16 cents a man saves on his cookout, the average woman will only save 12 cents. "I wish I could say I was surprised by this," said Senator and equality expert Elizabeth Warren. "I'm actually not surprised in the least since we live in an evil, sexist country. Please donate to...

Scientists found that vulnerable people and communities of color are disproportionately exposed to air pollution from firework celebrations

Every woman on the Mexican Soccer Team faced the flag & sang the Mexican National anthem. Several woman on the U.S. Soccer team turned away from the US flag - while a 92 year old Veteran played the anthem on a harmonica. Why didn’t @USWNT show the women turning away?

Bishop Schneider: ‘We are living in a spiritual battle between truth and lies’Tradition-loving bishop praises faithful French Catholics, warns against secularism, unchecked growth of Islam in EuropePARIS, France, July 5, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – During a recent trip to France, where he ordained two priests and two deacons for the traditional Latin Mass at the Institute of the Good Shepherd, Bishop Athanasius Schneider gave a large number of talks and interviews about his book of conversations with Diane Montagna, Christus Vincit, last year translated into French. Bishop Schneider, who is the auxiliary bishop of Nur Soltan, the capital of Kazakhstan, is...

Several King County, Washington, activist teachers revealed to Crosscut how they inject race and “equity” lessons into their elementary classrooms. Kent teacher Joanne Barber took advantage of violent Black Lives Matter protests last year “to teach more about race” in her second grade class. “I am willing to be that teacher that has those hard conversations,” she said. “I would be doing a huge disservice to my students if I didn’t give them information that they could see themselves in.” She told Crosscut learning that “racial history” is “just as important as reading or math.” Barber teaches children 7- and...

More than 5 million children died across the world in 2019 from preventable causes, according to the World Health Organization. Add to that the approximately 46 million unborn babies who were aborted and the total number of preventable children’s deaths was a staggering 51 million. Yet, the United Nations seems to be making matters worse for children, not better. While “the world’s poor are dying daily due to limited access to hospitals, medicine, and proper treatments, the United Nations is exhibiting a preoccupation with pushing countries to legalize abortion,” said Neydy Casillas, the vice president of International Affairs for Concerned...

To commemorate Biden securing a 16 cent savings on barbecue expenses for every American this year, the U.S. Treasury has announced the minting of a new 16 cent coin featuring Biden's likeness stamped on them. "This will be an eternal symbol of America's gratitude for Biden securing such a life-changing amount of savings for us all," said Treasury Spokesperson Marc Monopoly. "For all time, the memory of our great leader will be immortalized on this really handy 16 cent piece, forever reminding the American people what Joe Biden did for them in the summer of 2021." Now, whenever Americans go...

on Fox & Friends First, Chicago Alderman Anthony Napolitano (R) compared the Democrat-run city to a “war zone” following a violent Fourth of July weekend. HOST: [Chicago Mayor] Lori Lightfoot [D] has made statements saying that illegal guns are the problem in the city. What do you think? ANTHONY NAPOLITANO: I think that’s pure nonsense. We have the strongest and the strictest gun laws in the state, if not the country. If you go to our surrounding borders right now, where we’re supposedly getting all the guns from, they have nowhere near the amount of crime as we do. We...

Elitist Joe Scarborough looks down again.

Tech temp tattoos are nearly here. Microsoft Research and MIT's Media Lab have published details of Tattio, a futuristic research project looking into "on skin" technology. Inspired by the kind of metallic temporary tattoos you'd find at Coachella or Glastonbury, the team used gold imitation leaf metal and applied it to tattoo paper with stencil traces. In terms of functions, Microsoft Research and the Media Lab then experimented with a few ideas. The first was NFC tags to act as your digital identity and the idea is that people could choose how big an antenna they want to use in...

Catholic Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver called out a group of pro-abortion lawmakers Friday for promoting the evil of abortion while professing to be Catholic. In a column published at The Denver Catholic, Aquila responded to criticism lobbed at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops by 60 pro-abortion Catholic Democrat politicians in June. The politicians claimed the bishops were “weaponizing the Eucharist” because they voted to draft a teaching document that could rebuke pro-abortion politicians like President Joe Biden. But Aquila said the opposite is true. “Instead of accepting their own responsibility to understand and follow Church teaching, these politicians...

Several women on the US soccer team on Monday turned away from the US flag as 98-year-old WWII veteran Pete DuPré played the national anthem on a harmonica.

Human trafficking operations that were taking place within three states – California, Kansas, and Missouri – were recently thwarted by local and federal authorities in June. Between the human trafficking operations busted, reportedly over 40 victims were rescued and over 100 arrests were made across the operations.

Adam Mendelsohn, a close adviser to Lakers star LeBron James, has released a follow-up statement after saying he was “exhausted” by the Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements. Over the July 4th weekend, the New York Times released a juicy inside ESPN story revealing that many of the network’s minority employees are unhappy with comments made by white commentator Rachel Nichols who is heard bashing the network’s efforts to impose more diversity on its on-air staff. In a telephone recording accidentally uploaded to ESPN’s computer system, Nichols revealed her displeasure that black reporter Maria Taylor got a plum T.V....

Indian officials said that thousands of people were given fake coronavirus vaccines at scam inoccuation drives, CNN reported on Monday. CNN News affiliate News 18 reported that the scam vaccinations centers took place during late May and early June, with authorities beginning their investigation after some of the scam victims became suspicious of the vaccination certificates they got. A resident told the news source that one of the fake vaccine drives took place at a housing society where they had to pay cash and no one got any symptoms. Mumbai Police Department senior official Vishal Thakur told CNN that 12...

Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano took to social media to trash the United States of America on July 4 and she was not alone in voicing anger at the greatest country on earth. Multiple other Dems and liberals did the same. She posted a video of herself smiling, as American Girl by Tom Petty played in the background while wearing a blouse emblazoned with the stars and stripes of the American flag but captioned the tweet, “Reminder: The United States was founded on the unjust treatment of Native Americans, Africans, and other people of color.”

CHICAGO — Despite a highly touted plan by Chicago police to combat crime for the Fourth of July, at least 86 people were shot, 14 of them fatally, over the long holiday weekend. Among those shot since Friday were two young girls, ages 6 and 5, and two Chicago police officers who were breaking up a large crowd that had gathered on the city’s Far West Side. Bullets have struck six children in total over the weekend

The election cycle that never seems to end is about to draw to a close - hopefully. After two weeks of uncertainty and vote-counting errors, the city’s embattled Board of Elections is expected to release the results of a tranche of absentee ballots on Tuesday that will all but certainly determine the winner of the Democratic mayoral race and several other key local primaries. According to BOE tallies, 131,620 absentee ballots were returned by mail on time to be tabulated in the June 22 elections, the first mayoral primary in New York City history to use the somewhat confusing ranked-choice...

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Former Housing and Urban Development Department Secretary Dr. Ben Carson on Sunday blasted Critical Race Theory, calling it a “bunch of garbage.” Carson told Newsmax TV’s “Wake Up America” that Critical Race Theory was “an attempt to use race as a mechanism for redefining our society.” He warned the teaching could divide the American people and thus destroy the country from within. “It’s an attempt to use race as a mechanism for redefining our society — redefining what it was based on and how it impacts everybody, and it wants our people to believe that your race is the most...