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A report shows iOS ad rates began to plummet in June. When Apple released App Tracking Transparency as part of iOS 14.5, it posed a simple question to iPhone users: Do you want this app to track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites? Less than three months later, a new report says that so many chose no, advertisers are flocking to Android.According to the Wall Street Journal, prices for mobile ads directed at iOS users have fallen since iOS 14.5 arrived, while ad prices have risen for Android-targeted users. The publication estimates that some 70 percent of users...

State Rep. Attica Scott was arrested for rioting last year but charges were dropped A defund the police activist in Louisville, Ky., has thrown down the primary gauntlet against the area’s sixth-term Democratic congressman. Democrat state Rep. Attica Scott has officially announced a primary challenge against the Kentucky congressional delegation’s only Democrat, Rep. John Yarmuth. Scott, who dropped her first campaign ad with her announcement Wednesday morning, said Louisville "needs a leader who sees its true colors and understands the experiences of all of our neighbors." In the ad, the state representative gave her vocal support behind the highly criticized...

The Washington Post took a dim view of the Biden administration’s recent claims that Republicans support defunding police departments across America, with one of the paper’s fact-checkers slapping “Three Pinocchios” on the talking point Wednesday. Top Democrats, including White House adviser Cedric Richmond and White House press secretary Jen Psaki, have claimed that the GOP turned their back on law enforcement by voting against the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan earlier this year. President Biden said last month that states and cities could use approximately $350 billion in aid from the law to combat rising crime, including by hiring more...

TUCSON, AZ — Federal officials are investigating after a "highly modified drone” flew dangerously close to a Customs and Border Patrol helicopter in February. The CBP helicopter was just minutes into its flight when the encounter with the drone began. The flight path shows how the pilot maneuvered multiple times to avoid a possible collision. The drone was flying at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour and flying at altitudes well above 10,000 feet. “There’s a lot of rules that are being broken here," says ABC15 Chief Engineer, Ryan Steward. “If you are at or near 100 mph...

Pain where the jaw hinges to the skull is both common and difficult to treat. Killing off aged cells might be the secret to healing it. Age worsens joint deterioration in many parts of the body. Scientists aren't sure why, but in many cases this deterioration seems related to old, damaged cells that refuse to die. Normally, cells in our body are constantly renewing themselves. Most cells that get damaged or begin to turn cancerous are removed by our immune system to make way for fresh, young, healthy cells. But sometimes these cells stick around. Called senescent cells, they are...

@justinamash The NSA is doing all the things that McCarthy and Nunes voted for it to do. When I tried to stop the FISA 702 reauthorization, they said I was endangering American lives. GOP leaders urged Trump to denounce my efforts and sign the FISA bill, which he did. Now they feign outrage. RE: @ChadPergram 3) McCarthy: Today’s additional reporting on this issue raises serious questions about the NSA’s practices as it relates to American citizens. Ranking Member Nunes will initiate a thorough and aggressive investigation on behalf of the American people.

A South Carolina congresswoman is stocking up on firearms and taking target practice after her home was vandalized. Rep. Nancy Mace said she decided to carry a weapon after a Memorial Day incident when profanity and anarchist symbols were scrawled in spray paint on her Charleston property, according to Fox News. “It doesn’t feel good that I feel like I have to look behind my shoulder every day. It doesn’t feel safe,” the Republican freshman lawmaker told the network. “I carry a gun wherever I go today. Wherever I’m allowed to, I do carry.” The vandal or vandals reportedly wrote...

A new study has found that COVID-19 vaccines may be somewhat vulnerable to the California “Epsilon” strain of virus. The variant has three spike protein mutations it uses to weaken current vaccines by up to 70 percent, according to researchers from University of Washington and the San Fransisco-based lab Vir Biotechnology. The strain’s mutations break down neutralized antibodies, which are produced by vaccines such as Pfizer and Moderna and protect against infection, according to the study, published in the journal Science on July 1.

On Wednesday morning, Tucker told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo that he was contacted by a journalist over the weekend who informed him that the NSA leaked his emails to the media. The point of the leaks is to get Tucker Carlson’s highly popular Fox News show cancelled, according to the whistleblower. “They’re not allowed to spy on American citizens, they are,” Tucker said adding that it’s “shocking” that he is being targeted for criticizing the Biden Administration. ..... Snip..... According to Axios, Tucker Carlson was being spied on by the NSA while he was seeking an interview with Russian...

How bishops restrict and subvert the Traditional Latin Mass despite Summorum PontificumClose friends were parties in all of the following cases, which all occurred in America.July 7, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The traditional Catholic world has been buzzing with rumors over the past few weeks about Pope Francis and the Vatican moving to restrict Catholics from access to the Traditional Latin Mass, the increasingly popular form of the Mass which was the only Mass every Roman Catholic knew until the liberalizing reforms of Vatican II in the 1970s.After the Second Vatican Council, Catholics who wanted to go to the Traditional Latin...

Congratulations to Nikole Hannah-Jones for parlaying the intellectual imposture of the 1619 Project into a job for life. Hannah-Jones has been hired by Howard University as a professor in Race & Journalism. Both of these fields are rife with dubious standards and historic embarrassments, so she should fit right in. There are those on the pipe-smoking right who object to allowing a mountebank like Hannah-Jones onto the verdant lawns and into the stinky precincts of the institutions of what used to be the higher learning. They protest about academic standards, as if they still exist. They cite the history professors...

A federal judge denied the CDC's request to keep COVID-19 restrictions on cruises in place in Florida past July 18, writing that the agency "can show no factor that outweighs the need to conclude an unwarranted and unprecedented exercise of governmental power." U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday originally ruled against the CDC last month, granting a preliminary injunction that will turn the Conditional Sailing Order (CSO) into nonbinding guidelines on July 18. The CDC appealed the ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and requested a stay on Tuesday, but Merryday dismissed that motion on Wednesday....

ATASCADERO, Calif. (Tribune News Service) — A parachutist crashed through the roof of an Atascadero home Tuesday evening after their chute failed to fully deploy during a training exercise, according to the Atascadero Police Department. Emergency dispatchers received multiple reports around 4:55 p.m. Tuesday about a falling male parachutist in the 9500 block of Via Ciello, according to a city news release sent Wednesday morning. "Atascadero Fire and Police responded to the area and located the parachutist who had fallen through the exterior and interior roof of a residence," the release said. "The parachutist was conscious but stunned with complaints...

Tonight on the Tucker Carlson show he addressed a report by Axios that confirmed his initial suspicions: he was quietly trying to arrange an interview with Vladimir Putin, and the NSA both unmasked his identity and leaked the contents of those emails to at least one media outlet. Last week, Tucker Carlson revealed that the NSA had allegedly spied on his communications as part of another investigation. He became aware of this when a whistleblower contacted the show and let him know. His team has been trying to get to the bottom of this ever since, and on Tuesday, the...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ South Dakota Air National Guard and Make-A-Wish grant boy's wish to ride in a F-16 U.S. Air National Guard Lt. Col. Mark Noble, 114th Fighter Wing Inspector General, and Noah Lamfers, Make-a-Wish participant, pose for a group photo with the Lamfers family and Make-A-Wish workers at Joe Foss Field, South Dakota, June 24, 2021. Make-A-Wish South Dakota & Montana coordinated with the 114th Fighter Wing to make Lamfers’ wish to ride in an F-16 come true. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Taylor Solberg) Canteen Mission...

Leah Davis Lokan, 65, of Chico, California, was on a long-distance bicycling trip and had stopped in the western Montana town of Ovando when she was killed early Tuesday, said Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials as they provided more details about the attack. Lokan was killed on the bear’s second visit to the site where she and two fellow bicyclists were camping near the post office, officials said. The approximately 400-pound (181 kilogram) grizzly first awakened the campers about 3 a.m., officials said. They took food out of their tents, secured it and went back to sleep, they said.

A black employee at Tesla's California gigafactory claims he was called the N-word 'approximately 100 times' and saw swastikas and KKK signs plastered over the bathroom as the company faces a major racism lawsuit. Aaron Craven's sworn declaration is among 100 others from fellow staff members claiming Elon Musk's electric car giant discriminates against black people and has created a toxic atmosphere at its main factory in Fremont. 'I was directly called ''n*****' approximately 100 times at the Fremont factory,' Craven said in a sworn statement filed to Alameda County Superior Court, which has been seen by Dailymail.com. Craven has...

Explanation: What would it look like to fly into the Orion Nebula? The exciting dynamic visualization of the Orion Nebula is based on real astronomical data and adept movie rendering techniques. Up close and personal with a famous stellar nursery normally seen from 1,500 light-years away, the digitally modeled representation based is based on infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope. The perspective moves along a valley over a light-year wide, in the wall of the region's giant molecular cloud. Orion's valley ends in a cavity carved by the energetic winds and radiation of the massive central stars of the...

A draft bill from the Central Election Commission (CEC) would allow absentee voting on referendums across municipal and county lines, but would not allow for voting abroad or online, a source said yesterday. Opposition party members have been calling for the implementation of absentee voting, but the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has opposed it, citing concerns over information security and fraud. Due to such concerns, the commission’s bill — which has been submitted to the Executive Yuan for review — would not contain provisions for voting online or from abroad, the source said, adding that people would have to apply...

Rookie cornerback Cameron Kinley has been granted his request to play in the NFL for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced Tuesday. Austin announced in a statement that he approved a plan by the Department of the Navy to enlist Kinley in the Inactive Ready Reserve "for the duration of his football career." The news comes after Kinley's request to delay his Navy commission to play in the NFL had initially been denied. "Upon completion of his playing time, we look forward to welcoming him back inside the ranks as a naval officer," Austin said in...