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White House coordinator for the Indo-Pacific Kurt Campbell said this week the U.S. does “not support Taiwan independence” but does “very much support Taiwan’s dignity.

It’s just going to take some time. Time will heal. Or simply: with time my dear, with time. Time is powerful. It heals, transforms, renews, dulls, and decays. It raises rulers and silences them. It turns infants into the aged. It chisels the face of mountains and then turns them to dust. And as humans, we are all its subjects. We feel its effects and are subject to its demands. One of the most tangible tolls of time is the manner in which it weighs upon our relationships. I don’t relate to my parents the way I did when I...

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It’s FLOTUS Friday but news of the real FLOTUS is hard to come by.I can’t imagine why Melania Trump would avoid the media, can you? An unnamed source of the family told the outlet that Melania prefers to stay out of the limelight… "She never liked press scrutiny and hates it more now," the unnamed insider said. "She will do whatever she can to avoid being photographed or interviewed. She remains low key, enjoying her life with her family." – IBTAs long as you and your husband are going to be treated like hombrés you may as well go full...

Last year, the U.S. Army began equipping its first units with the service’s new squad designated marksman rifle (SDMR) the M110A1. The use of the new SDMR will provide Army infantry squads with a very potent means of engaging targets up to 600 meters away, and is part of an effort to improve the performance of infantry weapons against effective modern body armors. U.S. Army SDMRs, a Brief History The use of SDMRs within U.S. Army infantry squads emerged as a result of fighting in both Iraq and Afghanistan, where it became clear that the Army’s M4 and M16 rifles...

President Biden on Friday will direct the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to work with states on importing prescription drugs from Canada, and direct officials to develop a “comprehensive plan” to lower drug prices in 45 days. The moves are part of the health care section of a wide-ranging executive order on promoting competition in the economy that Biden is poised to sign on Friday afternoon. Allowing imports of cheaper drugs from other countries was part of Biden’s health care plan during the campaign, but Friday’s move is a step forward to take action on that front.

WASHINGTON, Monday, July 8. Col. THOMAS TAYLOR, of the Rebel army, came into Col. TYLER's camp this afternoon, with a flag of truce. He was sent with an escort to the head-quarters of Gen. MCDOWELL. Col. TAYLOR brought dispatches for President LINCOLN. A Cabinet meeting was held at once, and consultations were had during the evening with Gen. SCOTT. The subject of the dispatches is, of course, unknown. While passing from Col. TYLER's to head-quarters, Col. TAYLOR asked the officer in charge of the escort, if our army was not all prostrated with the measles. It is reported that a...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said there was “no good reason not to get vaccinated” at an event in Murray, Kentucky, Tuesday. “I know there is some skepticism out there,” McConnell said at the event. “It may not guarantee you don’t get it, but it almost guarantees you won’t die from it.” “Your amazing country, as a result of an extraordinary pharmaceutical industry and $50 billion we put into something we called Operation Warp Speed, came up with not one, not two, but three highly effective vaccines in under a year,” he said. “A modern medical miracle.” McConnell said the...

In the wake of the killings of George Floyd; Daunte Wright; and Andrew Brown, Jr., which have received huge national attention in the media, it's time to establish the truth in our thinking about race and crime. How common are killings of blacks by police officers, most of them white, or, for that matter, by whites in general? And how common are killings of white police officers, and other whites, by blacks? And why is it that only the killings of blacks seem to receive extensive media attention? The fundamental truth is that all human beings are divinely created creatures...

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall reportedly “can’t wait to get rid of” face masks as England nears “freedom day” of July 19th when all legal mask mandates are lifted. The Duchess and her husband Prince Charles were visiting the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama when Camilla made the comment to an MA student. “I can’t wait to get rid of these,” said Camilla as she touched her face mask. The biggest question that remains when it comes to the lifting of mask mandates is whether shops, restaurants, cinemas and public transport will simply continue to insist they be worn...

To look at me you’d never know it, but my great-great-great-great [“4G”] grandmother was from Nigeria, according to my saliva, all that was needed for the laboratory to make that determination. It is difficult to know which of these two data points would have surprised my parents more -- how little we know of our family’s past or how much modern science can tell us. Our family history is pretty murky on both sides, due to early deaths, divorce, transiency, alcoholism, and other assorted human conditions. There’s no shame in that, I suppose. No doubt, many American families have a...

ALBANY — The parent company of St. Peter’s Health Partners, one of the Capital Region’s largest employers and one of two dominant health care providers in the region, has mandated that all of its employees get a COVID-19 vaccination.The news came down Thursday from Michigan-based Trinity Health, the national not-for-profit Catholic health care system that operates St. Peter’s.“At this point the colleagues within our system who are refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccination and don’t receive an approved exception, whether it’s for strongly held religious beliefs or medical condition, those colleagues will no longer be employed by our organization," said...

If you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, you don’t need a booster shot to protect against the Delta variant, the US government says. The CDC and the FDA teamed up to issue a reassuring statement after Pfizer announced it was developing a booster shot against what is now the country’s dominant strain. The Thursday evening press release said inoculated Americans were “protected from severe disease and death, including from the variants currently circulating the country.”

Over July Fourth weekend, according to CNN, at least 233 people were killed and 618 others were injured in more than 500 shootings across the country. Unbelievably, those tragic statistics actually represent a 26% decrease from July Fourth weekend in 2020. But overall, violent crime in 2021 across the nation -- and especially in major urban corridors -- has only increased over 2020's horrific baseline. Nationwide murder rates in 2021 to date show a roughly 25% annual increase over 2020, and that number spikes to roughly 30% in our large cities. In New York City, there has been a 32%...

Here in Northeastern Oklahoma, the radio station that had carried Rush all these years, KRMG 102.3 FM, located in Tulsa, filled that same time slot with a show hosted by a cat named Mark Kaye (sp?), syndicated out of (one believes) Fort Lauderdale, Florida after Rush died. It turns out that Mr. Kaye is a witty dude and all that, but his show is pretty much a game show. Make fun of Biden, play stupid radio games. All the time. Makes Hannity sound professional.Something must be going on behind the scenes with Mr. Kaye because his show often isn't there,...

A man was killed and another was wounded in a shooting outside an East Oakland liquor store during a memorial vigil for a homicide victim, authorities said.

Pages, websites that repeatedly publish or share false news will see "overall distribution reduced and be restricted' in other ways," says warning. Facebook is warning users against sharing a study that found dangerously high carbon-dioxide intake in masked schoolchildren, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics. "Pages and websites that repeatedly publish or share false news will see their overall distribution reduced and be restricted in other ways," the warning says when users paste the link on Facebook, before confirming they want to share it. It's giving the same warning and threat of account restrictions to...

"LEAVE YOUR LIFE OF SIN" . JOHN 8 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . Resources to CLICK: To read JOHN 8 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John Harmony of the Gospels 2 8 A. D. Bible Timeline LUKE 8:2-11 At dawn [Jesus] appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday called it a “tremendous personal benefit” to have led New York state amid the coronavirus crisis — during which he scored $5.1 million for his pandemic memoir. In a speech to his fellow governors that was loaded with presumably unintentional double meanings, Cuomo told them that they all “have a new credibility.” “Very few people were going through what we went through and we went through it together,” he said. “And speaking for myself, it was a tremendous personal benefit.” Cuomo’s controversial book deal is the subject of pending probes by federal and state officials...

"Critical race theory" has become the latest "Republicans pounce" story. Liberal media outlets are upset that this is being debated before school boards. On July 7, CNN reporter Elle Reeve complained "relentless propaganda from some conservatives created a panic that white people, and especially white children, are under attack." Perish the thought. There is zero doubt that after all the overwrought journalistic elevation of George Floyd's death into a "landmark" historical event that exposed "systemic racism," the schools would follow. The so-called "hard conversations" -- one-sided "anti-racism" diatribes about how America remains hopelessly, structurally racist -- are happening in classrooms...