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SYDNEY, July 12 – The prospect of an extended lockdown in Sydney loomed on Monday as Australian health officials reported yet another record daily rise in COVID-19 cases for the year, fuelled by the highly infectious Delta variant. New South Wales state reported 112 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, almost all in Sydney, despite the country’s biggest city entering its third week of lockdown. Case numbers have been at record levels for at least three days. There was, however, a glimmer of light as the number of newly-infected people who were out in the community while infectious dropped to 34...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Monday tore into Vice President Kamala Harris for questioning the competency of rural voters to be able to cast a ballot. In a recent interview with BET, Harris explained that in some places, people don’t have access to copy their ID because they don’t live near an OfficeMax or a Kinko’s. Gingrich noted that Democrats are now distancing themselves from claims that requiring voter ID is racist while President Joe Biden and Harris have dug in. He said that Harris “looks like a fool more than a vice president about half the time” with...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A 47-year-old woman is fighting for her life after police say she was cut by a hatchet. Rochester Police say they responded to the area of Chili Ave before it splits off to West Main Street shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday. Officials say they located a victim who was suffering from injuries believed to be caused by a hatchet. She was transported to Strong Hospital with life-threatening injuries. Officers say they are not sure who is responsible yet. Anyone with information is asked to call 911.

Rioting triggered by the imprisonment of former South African President Jacob Zuma escalated Monday as shopping malls in Johannesburg were looted, major roads were blocked by burning tires and the police and military struggled to contain the violence.

Mel Gibson was very excited to see former President Donald Trump at UFC 264 late Saturday night. The “Lethal Weapon” star was enjoying the highly-anticipated fighting event when he saw the former POTUS walking through the crowd, and he fired him a salute as the crowd went wild. It’s sometimes hard to believe the reality that we’re living in is real. Imagine if I told you 20 years ago that Donald Trump would be attending an MMA event as a former president and Mel Gibson would be saluting him. Not a single person on the planet would have likely believed...

The COVID panic porn peddlers are still at it again with this Delta variant that no one should really fear, but the experts and the media are still treating like the Andromeda Strain. It is more contagious, but it’s not more lethal and it doesn’t make you sicker. Instead of peddling images of body bags, it’s being used to ensure we vaccinate everyone. No doubt the Democrat-media complex is going to use this to push for mandator vaccination, even suggesting door-to-door measures to ensure the nation reaches that 70 percent threshold. Oh, wait—that’s already been tossed around by some folks....

Shohei Ohtani has 33 home runs and a 3.49 ERA, but Stephen A. Smith believes the Angels’ two-way star is detrimental to Major League Baseball. During Monday’s episode of ESPN’s “First Take,” the show’s host, Molly Qerim, asked Smith and Max Kellerman if “it’s good for Major League Baseball that Ohtani is the top attraction.” In response, Smith answered “not to me,” reasoning that Ohtani’s use of a Japanese interpreter diminishes the sport’s popularity domestically. “The fact that you got a foreign player that doesn’t speak English, that needs an interpreter, believe it or not, I think contributes to harming...

More Muslims are converting to Christianity than ever before and at great personal risk. What accounts for the trend? More Muslims have come to faith in Jesus Christ over the last thirty years—and specifically over the last seven to ten years—than at any other time in human history,” wrote Joel Rosenberg in 2008, and the pace has intensified since then. Uwe Siemon-Netto confirmed in 2016 that “a global phenomenon is underway: Muslims are converting to various Christian denominations in droves in every part of the world.” Indeed, Christian missionaries have even coined a name and an abbreviation for them: Muslim-background...

NEW ORLEANS, La. — Edwin Washington Edwards, the high-living, quick-witted four-term governor who reshaped Louisiana’s oil revenues and dominated the state’s politics for decades, a run all but overshadowed by scandal and eight years in federal prison, died Monday. He was 93. Edwards died of respiratory problems with family and friends by his bedside, family spokesman Leo Honeycutt said, days after entering hospice care at his home in Gonzales, near the Louisiana capital. “I have lived a good life, had better breaks than most, had some bad breaks, too, but that’s all part of it. I tried to help as...

Even as illegal border-crossers continue to stream in by the hundreds of thousands, President Joe Biden can’t stop himself from encouraging would-be illegal migrants to try their luck. His latest order to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is to not detain any pregnant, postpartum or nursing women. Yes, he exempts agents actually on the border itself, but that doesn’t cover the many cases where illegal immigrants are caught only after they’ve entered the country. And while the rule certainly has valid humanitarian motives, it follows a host of other well-intended moves that triggered this exodus in the first place. No...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — “I’ve always got in touch with law enforcement that we can at least let them know the timeline to let them know when we are doing service,” Seon Williams, Williams Memorial Service, said. That’s what one funeral home does and others are considering after shootings across Central Illinois. There was a deadly shooting at a funeral luncheon in Champaign last week. It happened outside of an American Legion, but some funeral homes are taking that into consideration and working with police. WCIA spoke with two funeral homes in Champaign. One place says they have not needed...

She said that because developing countries are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change, the U.S. has increased its efforts around the goal of mobilizing $100 billion per year from both public and private sources to help developing countries with climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts. Yellen pointed out that, earlier this year, the U.S. released an International Climate Finance Plan. She said that the U.S. intends to double its annual public climate finance for developing countries by 2024 and triple public finance for climate adaptation. She said that doing so would result in some $5.7 billion each year...

PODUNK, KS—Vice President Kamala Harris caused quite a stir while trying to help rural Americans vote. She traveled to some of the most backwater areas of America — thousands of miles from civilization — and brought a photocopier to show them how to copy an ID card. The rural Americans had never seen such a device, though, and soon became angry at it. “It’s stealing our documents’ souls!” exclaimed one simple rural American upon seeing his ID copied. He then pointed an accusing finger at Harris. “She must be a witch!” “I am not a witch,” Harris stated, though her...

Armed citizens fire on looters VIDEO AT LINK......................... Rooftop South African in a wheelchair protects his business Widespread looting across the country… JUST IN – Every single store in the Jabulani Mall near Johannesburg has been looted. Reports and videos of riots at more malls in parts of South Africa.pic.twitter.com/t5DL96EVIM — Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) July 12, 2021 #ZumaUnrest Looting continuing at Letsoho shopping centre in Katlehong. Police have made several arrests for stealing (@ntwaagae) pic.twitter.com/oJRaV9kfSz — Team News24 (@TeamNews24) July 12, 2021 Apparently, It looks like now they are looting Coffins 😳😳,it is very sad in deed #shutdowngauteng makro pic.twitter.com/bNCwtJ2RE9...

July 11 UPDATES6,642 new cases and 27 new deaths in the United States

Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS), chair of the House Select Committee investigating January 6, said Monday on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily” that the committee will investigate if Republican members of Congress helped Capitol rioters. Thompson said, “We have to see if there were other members of Congress that perhaps contributed to what went on. There have been allegations that some members of Congress gave tours of the Capitol to people who have been in charge of the insurrection. We also have to get with the Department of Justice. We’re not interested in conflicting with the prosecution. But we think there is significant...

Ohio for years had the distinction as the only state that does not license its hospitals, but a provision in the new state budget changes that. When Gov. Mike DeWine signed the two-year budget June 30, it included a requirement that hospitals get licensed when a new program is in place. While Ohio hospitals aren’t licensed, they are already regulated for patient safety and quality in other ways. But a licensing program means new ways to hold hospitals accountable and to require data sharing, said Alicia Shoults, spokeswoman for Ohio Department of Health. “This allows ODH to develop a licensure...

A British soldier has cheated death after crashing into someone's roof and falling into their kitchen when his parachute failed to fully deploy during a training exercise in California.

Let me say that I know Gen. Milley but his characterization of critical race theory is simply wrong. To begin with, it's not simply a benign academic theory in support of the advancement of civil rights for African Americans. Instead, it is a species of Marxism, albeit one with its roots in the neo-Marxist Frankfurt School, that divides all questions into matters of oppressors and victims, which is determined via racial lines. Such racial essentialism is not a contribution to the expansion of civil rights but rather is fundamentally at odds with the principle that underpinned all advances in the...

“Babylon Down! Babylon No More!” (Revelation 18:19-24) “Babylon down! Babylon no more!” That is the powerful message of our text today, from Revelation 18. “So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence.” This is a word of terrifying judgment coming on the world. “Babylon Down! Babylon No More!” But the surprising part of our text is how we are to react to this oracle of doom. We’re told to rejoice over Babylon’s fall: “Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!” Really? We are...