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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday shared a dramatic Fourth of July video of himself toting an American flag while riding an electric surfboard across a lake — once again lighting the internet up as the social media crowd chimed in. “Happy July 4th!” Zuckerberg, who’s worth an estimated $132 billion, wrote on the Instagram post of the video. The Facebook founder appeared to be riding a $12,000 Efoil board, which allows users to glide above the water. [Cut] Some social media users also resurfaced a May article from The Information that said Facebook planned to repair its image by...

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for gun violence on Tuesday, marking the first of its kind ever enacted in the United States, the governor’s office said.According to Cuomo’s office, the emergency declaration requires the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services to “gather and share incident-level data” from local law enforcement on gun violence and invests almost $140 million in intervention, prevention and jobs programs.The order also establishes the Office of Gun Violence Prevention to “coordinate efforts and direct resources to emerging gun violence hot spots” and creates a new state police gun trafficking...

…”All your children are belong to us”…I’m not 100% sure whether this is unbridled arrogance or just jaw-dropping tone-deafness, but this is absurd. These are toxic sociopaths operating on a level of totalitarian outlook that is alarming as heck. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), a national union led by hard-line leftist Randi Weingarten, has announced adding $2.5 million to a legal fund specifically intended to fight parents for control over education curriculum. Apparently the AFT feels they should be permitted to determine the curriculum of what they teach. Parents do not get a say in what is taught to...

Arizona and the city of Tucson could be headed to court over gun control in the state. GOP Gov. Doug Ducey signed a law declaring Arizona a "Second Amendment sanctuary" earlier this year. Tucson officials moved to uphold federal gun regulations in the city, despite the state law. See more stories on Insider's business page. Three months after the state of Arizona declared itself a Second Amendment sanctuary, officials in the liberal-leaning city of Tuscon say they plan to ignore the so-called declaration, signaling a possible legal battle in the ongoing fight for control over gun rights in the battleground...

Wanda knows she’s lucky to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Her three adult-aged children in the Dominican Republic haven’t yet had the chance — there are too few doses for too many people to go around. In the United States and Ohio in particular, the inverse is true: There’s an abundance of vaccines and a shortfall of people willing to receive them. “Wanda,” 38, who requested her real first and last name not be used, said through a translator her coworkers believe numerous falsehoods about the vaccines. “A lot of them are afraid, some of them think they’ll die, they’ll get...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (No update was provided on 5 July, the first day that was skipped - Vaccination slow on this Holiday weekend report - Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths remain low - Reports from Israel that Pfizer less effective (64%) against mild cases of Delta variant, but still strong against severe disease - Biden announced new vaccination plan) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 383,068,840 (21,434,300 J&J) Administered: 331,214,347 (12,646,604 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 182,714,064 Fully Vaccinated: 157,636,088

“We need to go community-by-community, neighborhood-by-neighborhood, and often times door-to-door, literally knocking on doors." — Biden on COVID vaccine efforts. 7-6-2021

Sen. Rand Paul: "I don't think there's as much hatred out there as everybody says." Clip...

Explanation: How many moons does Saturn have? So far 82 have been confirmed, the smallest being only a fraction of a kilometer across. Six of its largest satellites can be seen here in a composite image with 13 short exposure of the bright planet, and 13 long exposures of the brightest of its faint moons, taken over two weeks last month. Larger than Earth's Moon and even slightly larger than Mercury,Saturn's largest moon Titan has a diameter of 5,150 kilometers and was captured making nearly a complete orbit around its ringed parent planet. Saturn's first known natural satellite, Titan was...

Ingenuity tested out some new tricks on its ninth flight.NASA's experimental Mars helicopter Ingenuity has now flown nine times on the Red Planet, letting mission engineers test a host of capabilities that could pave the way for more Martian choppers.Ingenuity made its ninth flight on Mars on Monday (July 5), when it remained aloft for 166.4 seconds and flew as fast as 16 feet (5 meters) per second, according to a tweet from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, which oversees the project.Before the flight, NASA announced that the little aircraft would attempt new feats on this sortie, including taking...

[Catholic Caucus] What St. Junipero Serra shows about Eucharistic coherenceWhat does an 18th-century Franciscan missionary have to do with a 21st-century debate about abortion and communion? Bear with me, and I’ll explain.First let me make a confession. I’ve been working full-time as a Catholic journalist for nearly 40 years now, and I still don’t know what bishops do all day.Oh, I don’t mean that quite literally. I know what fills the hours: meetings, mostly. I’ve even seen some bishops’ daily schedules. Running a diocese, like running any large organization, requires a lot of time and effort.But what are they doing...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has declared a state of emergency in his state due to the recent uptick in gun violence. “Today I am issuing an Executive Order declaring a Disaster Emergency on gun violence. Gun violence is a public health crisis, and we must treat it like one,” Cuomo wrote in a tweet on Tuesday. “This declaration will allow us to give this crisis the full attention & resources it deserves.”

ESPN has pulled Rachel Nichols off of her sideline reporting gig for the NBA Finals ahead of tonight's series opener after the revelation of a 2020 bombshell video in which she suggested African-American colleague Maria Taylor was given a particular studio assignment to promote diversity. The conversation, revealed on Sunday by The New York Times, was recorded by an unknown party during the 2020 NBA season restart at the league’s bubble in Florida when Nichols was apparently unaware a camera in her hotel room was still attached to a live microphone following a satellite broadcast. Nichols will continue to host...

The victim of a gun attack in Amsterdam city centre on Tuesday evening has been named by Dutch media as crime journalist Peter R. de Vries. Police confirmed the shooting happened on the Lange Leidsedwarsstraat, which runs parallel to Prinsengracht, at 7.45pm, but did not name the victim. The Parool newspaper and shock blog GeenStijl both said within half an hour that the victim was 64-year-old De Vries, who made his name in the early 1980s writing about Amsterdam’s underworld and the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken. De Vries later fell out with crime boss Willem Holleeder after he collaborated on...

An Austin, Texas, man who was charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has died in a motorcycle collision, multiple news outlets reported Tuesday. In a statement, the Austin Police Department said Joseph Cable Barnes died in a crash on June 12. The department said officers responded to a call where Barnes, who was riding his motorcycle, collided with a car after police say he ran a red light. Barnes, 35, was pronounced dead at the scene and the other driver was transported to a nearby hospital to be treated for minor injuries, according to the...

“Our company has had to deal with import delays due to backlogged West Coast ports, higher domestic freight costs, and a labor shortage at distribution centers that has prompted wage increases. Earlier this year, we thought, or maybe we hoped, that some of the industry wide supply-chain issues would have started to settle down by now. But that clearly hasn’t happened. In fact, the whole global supply situation seems to have gotten maybe even a little bit worse.”John Crimmins, chief financial officer of Burlington Stores Inc., 5/27/21 Crimmins’s observation summarizes how business costs are driving persistent inflation due to multiple...

Representatives from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) met Friday with Venezuela’s contested President Nicolás Maduro. Participants in the meeting, which took place in Venezuela’s capital of Caracas, included the chairperson of the DSA’s National Political Committee, members of the International Committee, and members of the organization’s Political Formation, Foreign Policy and Bilateral Relations sections, local news outlet Telesur reported. Venezuela has experienced widespread protests against the Maduro regime and nearly five million Venezuelans have been forced to flee the country under his rule due to food and medical shortages. A fact-finding mission appointed by the United Nations Human Rights...

Tewkunzi Green was released from prison 22 years early after murdering Montral Fleming in Peoria in 2007 when Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed a “commutation of sentencing order.” Fleming’s family says they were not notified of her prison release through the state, but instead through Facebook. Other families have had similar experiences, and Illinois Senate Republicans are asking why.

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