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The Biden administration is looking at the possibility of setting up an emergency direct hotline between the US and China, a new report alleges. Citing a US official and another source familiar with early conversations about the device, CNN reported Wednesday that the administration was pursuing an idea similar to that of the “red telephone” set up between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The Moscow-Washington hotline — as it was also known, as there was never actually a red phone used for the communications — was established in 1963 under President John F. Kennedy. At...

Tuesday’s telecast delivered 8.24 million viewers, about 100,000 more than the 2019 game’s 8.14 million. (Last year’s All-Star Game was canceled due to the pandemic.) It’s also worth noting that the Nielsen figures for Tuesday include out of home viewing and 2019’s do not. Still, the audience for the All-Star Game is in keeping with both improved ratings for baseball this season — including Monday’s Home Run Derby on ESPN — and a general uptick for sports following last year’s pandemic-snarled calendar.

Sen. Lindsey Graham says it would be Biden's "biggest mistake yet," but the U.S. troop departure is long overdue.On July 8, President Joe Biden updated his timeline for the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The mission is now set to reach its end on August 31 rather than the original September 11 deadline. Nearly 20 years in the making, America's longest war looks to be finally drawing to a close. For some, it's too soon. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say so, claiming that the departure is hasty and leaves no clear path forward for the Afghan government....

Should I be charged with a felony, I know that as an American I am presumed innocent. This presumption of innocence means I will remain in possession of my God-given liberty until a jury of my peers finds me guilty, and a judge determines that I shall forfeit an element of my liberty, my freedom to move about in society as I please. In a larger sense encompassing the presumption of innocence, there is the presumption of liberty. Liberty comprises all of the enumerated, unenumerated as well as implied rights and privileges of our Constitution. Until I prove myself unfit...

For the second time in two months, Portland leaders have blocked a request to expand a groundbreaking program designed to reduce interactions between armed police officers and people experiencing homelessness or mental health crises. The 5-month-old program, called Portland Street Response, offers an alternative to dispatching armed officers to certain types of mental health crisis calls. Instead, emergency dispatchers can send a two-member crisis team: one paramedic and one licensed mental health crisis therapist. But the program has limits: Portland Street Response can only respond to calls within the Lents neighborhood, and it can only assist people who are either...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (New Cases up to over 30K, Hospitalizations rising and Deaths jumped to 371 - Vaccinations slow/steady - New Cases, Hospitalizations and Death curves are accelerating upward - Third week of cases rising, and now deaths have popped upward - The Delta variant wave has begun in the USA) Administered: 335,487,779 (12,905,099 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 184,835,149 Fully Vaccinated: 160,126,516

National Nurses United wants the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to tighten its mask recommendations and call for mask-wearing regardless of whether an individual has been vaccinated against COVID-19. "NNU strongly urges the CDC to reinstate universal masking, irrespective of vaccination status, to help reduce the spread of the virus, especially from infected individuals who do not have any symptoms. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19 disease, spreads easily from person to person via aerosol transmission when an infected person breathes, speaks, coughs, or sneezes. Asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic infected individuals can spread infectious SARS-CoV-2 aerosols during breathing and speaking,...

It's no longer just about who gets to vote or making it easier for eligible voters to vote. It's about who gets to count the vote

The man is seen chasing the woman into the elevator while bleeding profusely from his forehead. It is being reported the woman smashed a bottle over the man's face.The man assaults the woman, the woman fights back until she informs him it's all being recorded by the elevator. Everything seems to cool down momentarily until the elevator doors open, at which point the male goes at it again with the female.Moments later, the two are seen sponging up all the blood, the man bandaged up. https://vidmax.com/video/205738-elevator-cctv-captures-insane-russian-couple-assault-each-other-bloody-then-quietly-clean-blood-together-graphic

Morning Joe served up a classic example today of the liberal media's double standard when it comes to covering Republicans versus Democrats. The subject was the fleeing from the Lone Star state of Texas state House Democrats, and Republican efforts to return them to the state to do their legislative duty. Morning Joe painted the Democrats in near-heroic terms. But Jonathan Lemire's take on Republican efforts to haul the deserting Dems back to Austin was altogether more negative. He derided it as: "a political show. It's a way to stir up passions and play to the base."Get the rest of...

The federal government’s count of the COVID-19 death toll in New York has 11,000 more victims than the tally publicized by the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which has stuck with a far more conservative approach to counting virus deaths. The discrepancy in death counts continued to widen this year, according to an Associated Press review, even as the Democrat has come under fire over allegations that his office purposely obscured the number of deaths of nursing home residents to protect his reputation. New York state’s official death count, presented daily to the public and on the state’s Department of...

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WASHINGTON -- The FBI made numerous serious errors in investigating allegations against former USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar and didn't treat the case with the "utmost seriousness," the Justice Department's inspector general said Wednesday. The long-awaited watchdog report raises serious questions about how the Justice Department and the FBI handled the case and highlights serious missteps at the FBI between the time the allegations were first reported until Nassar's arrest. The inspector general's investigation was spurred by allegations that the FBI failed to promptly address complaints made in 2015 against Nassar. USA Gymnastics contacted the FBI about the...

When considering all the chaos going on, it's best the know who thetrue agitators are.You just might be surprised at who the enemy really is.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) called on President Biden on Thursday to double the funding he’s proposed to fix public housing during a tour of a Brooklyn NYCHA complex which highlighted the long-standing problems they’re seeking to remedy. Biden has proposed pouring $40 billion into public housing throughout the U.S. over the next several years, but Schumer and Velazquez are saying it’s not enough and ultimately want the federal government to pony up more than $80 billion to address the mold, old roofs, leaky pipes and other squalid conditions that have plagued New York...

In a recorded phone call between a vaccine victim and a representative of Moderna, the rep admitted that everyone that subjects themselves to the vaccine is a participant in the trial.He also admits long-term protective efficacy against Covid-19.The woman on the phone call is suffering from Guillain-Barré syndrome after her first dose and recorded the conversation with this Moderna representaive. https://vidmax.com/video/205736-moderna-rep-admits-during-phone-call-that-everyone-getting-vaccinated-is-part-of-phase-3-of-trails

The European Union has announced a raft of climate change proposals aimed at pushing it towards its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050.

Last night, several special elections happened in various legislative districts in the states of Georgia, Alabama, and Wisconsin. After the results came in, a common theme was apparent: Republicans had overperformed compared to the 2020 election. Yet, it was the Georgia election that raised the most eyebrows. In a suburban Atlanta district that saw its Republican vote share hit an all-time low just under a year ago, voters swung 22 points further toward the GOP yesterday. Now, because these special election results heavily favored Republicans, the media will not use them as a bellwether. Further, I’m not saying they are...

Here we go again, 150 multinational Wall Street corporations write a collective letter urging congress to pass the stalled legislation that would trigger a federal takeover of U.S. elections. [Reuters Article Link] I’m not going to post the article directly because it is the same group of character, the same motives and intentions that we previously wrote about [HERE]. [Please note: all leftist media call them “corporations” when the narrative is purposed to attack capitalism (ie. ‘Occupy’), and then the media switch to the term “companies” when the narrative engineering needs to support the same corporations they previously attacked. The...

6 minute clip from a Newhart episode. I've been laughing all day from this.