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The State Department and Senate Democrats are calling out Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for holding up confirmation votes on key members of President Biden’s national security team. They are particularly criticizing Cruz for his hold on Bonnie Jenkins, who Biden nominated as under secretary of State for arms control and international security affairs. U.S. and Russian officials are expected to meet on July 28 for the first Strategic Stability Dialogue on nuclear nonproliferation talks, which was announced during Biden’s first face-to-face summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin next month. “[Jenkins] will be the senior official participating in those talks and...

A 35-year-old man was shot to death following a “heated” dispute over loud music at his Valley Glen apartment building over the weekend, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Officers responded to a report of a shooting around 2:40 a.m. in the 6800 block of Coldwater Canyon Avenue and found the victim with multiple gunshot wounds, according to an LAPD news release. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. Police identified him as Eduard Avetisyan. During the investigation, detectives learned that the shooting transpired after what they described as a “heated neighbor dispute over loud music,” the release stated....

SPRINGFIELD -- The wide availability of COVID-19 vaccines has changed the state's approach for mitigating the virus' spread statewide and in schools. For school districts, that means suggested rather than required guidance, with an emphasis on local control in imposing mitigations. For the governor's office, that means there are "no plans" to reinstate some of the mitigation measures and economic shutdowns that were commonplace earlier in the pandemic.

An “apparent miscalculation” in the weight of fireworks detonated by police is suspected in the explosion that shook a South Los Angeles neighborhood late last month, according to a preliminary findings released Monday. What was meant to be a safe detonation of homemade fireworks ended in an explosion that injured 17 people on June 30 in the 700 block of East 27th Street, where police had spent the day seizing a large cache of fireworks from a home. Officials said a Los Angeles Police Department squad opted to detonate some of fireworks that were “leaking” and they deemed to be...

A Republican state lawmaker, bolstered by campaign trail support from top Republican candidates for governor and U.S. Senate, has launched a push for a “forensic investigation” of the presidential election results, a review modeled on the widely discredited process underway in Arizona.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced some "big news" on Monday. He's running for re-election. "We’ve been through a lot," Pritzker wrote in a tweet, "and I’ve been so proud to see Illinoisans come together during the toughest of times." Pritzker said he's "excited to fight for the state I love" alongside Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, "and there’s no limit to what we can do going forward."

For Daniel Craig, 2015's "Spectre" was the last time he thought he'd be playing the iconic James Bond."I thought I probably was physically not capable of doing another," Craig, who suffered a torn meniscus during filming, told Total Film. "For me, it was very cut and dried that I wasn't coming back."However, the opportunity to explore a different side of Bond drew the English actor back in for one last hoorah."It's interesting to explore his emotions, because he's a cut-off character. He doesn't feel like other people, because he's a killer," he explained. "On 'Casino' he loses the love of...

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Early yesterday morning, cops from the @NYPD67Pct were on a fixed post to address community concerns when they were suddenly assaulted with a glass bottle in an unprovoked attack. The suspect, who has been arrested for assaulting officers twice in the past, was quickly caught. The officer received lacerations to the neck and head which required stitches and staples, but thankfully will be OK. 24/7 your NYPD officers put themselves in harms way to protect this city, it's residents and it's visitors. NYPD Twitter - Video

EDITORIAL BROAD Black Lives Matter under fire for supporting 'Cuban police brutality' In the US, a storm of criticism has erupted against Black Lives Matter (BLM) as the movement appears to have sided with the Cuban communist regime in the protests in Cuba...

New York City does not “intend” to require masks indoors as the Big Apple sees an uptick in COVID-19 cases amid a highly infectious variant surge, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday. “No. Simple answer: no,” de Blasio said Monday morning during his daily press briefing, when asked if the city would reinstitute a face-covering mandate for the unvaccinated and vaccinated in indoor spaces, following a vocal local politician calling for one. “Masks have value, unquestionably. But masks are not going at the root of the problem — vaccination is.” De Blasio vowed that the city will “double down” on...

Transmutations observed from pressure cycling palladium silver metals with deuterium gas Authors Gustave C.Fralick Robert C.Hendricks Wayne D.Jennings Theresa L.Benyo et al https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.08.287 Highlights • Surface transmutations occurred in deuterium gas cycling experiments of PdAg tubes. • Zn and Cr not present in PdAg before experiments were observed on PdAg afterwards. Abstract Hydrogen, deuterium, and helium gases were separately cycled through a Johnson-Matthey purifier containing coiled palladium silver alloy tubing: Pd25Ag (75 wt% Pd and 25 wt% Ag). During the cycling of D2 gas, evidence of anomalous heat production was observed. However, during the cycling of H2 and He, very...

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) was the first to testify at Democrats’ Senate hearing in Atlanta on Monday and used his speaking time to rail against his state for “voter suppression” and urge Congress to pass “federal voting rights” legislation. The hearing was the first field hearing the Senate Rules Committee hosted in 20 years and was led by chairwoman Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), an outspoken proponent of federalizing aspects of states’ election processes.

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Partial transcript of video:We're back here with Dr. Brian Arliss (spelling?). We did an interview with him and he wasn't able to release the numbers.SNIPSo at 3 o' clock, right here in Anaheim, As confirmed today by Thomas Renz they just filed federal papers in a lawsuit against the government. 45 thousand dead from the Covid-19 shots within 3 days so far, and they've covered it up.45 thousand. The VAERS data has only reported 11 thousand, but there's 11 different report systems into the government. One of them alone has 45 thousand that they have not released or told you...

The Bannon War Room on Monday was OFF THE CHARTS! The BIG LIE is being exposed and THERE IS NOTHING THAT CAN STOP IT! Steve invited Professor David K. Clements from New Mexico State University and retired Army intelligence captain and former baseball analyst Seth Keshel to discuss their latest analysis on the 2020 election. Seth Keshel droppeed a BOMB on the War Room. According to Seth, President Trump won Pennsylvania by 6-8% in 2020. This isn’t just hyperbole. This is based on the models and predictions and over 75 years of history. According to Seth Keshel Republicans out-registered Democrats...

Doctors for Covid Ethics has sent the following letter to tens of thousands of doctors in Europe, summarising four recent scientific findings critical to the COVID-19 vaccination program. The letter explains each finding as it relates to the biology of COVID-19 vaccines, including interactions with the immune system.Taken together, the letter warns that these new pieces of evidence force all physicians administering COVID-19 vaccines to re-evaluate the merits of COVID-19 vaccination, in the interests of their own ethical standing, and their patients’ safety and health.

SIXTEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME MATTHEW 12:38-42 Friends, today in our Gospel some Pharisees ask Jesus for a sign. And Jesus replies, “An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet,” who was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights. Jonah was called by God to preach conversion to Nineveh, which is described as an enormously large city. It took, they said, three days to walk through it. I can’t help but think of Nineveh as one of our large, modern cities,...

More than 60% of likely U.S. voters are not confident Vice President Kamala Harris is ready to be president, according to a new Trafalgar Group survey. Poll participants were asked: "Based on her performance as Vice President, how confident are you that Kamala Harris is ready to be President?" A total of 58.6% answered "not confident at all" and another 5% said "not very confident," in the survey conducted July 12-13 among 1,1161 likely voters. Only 22.2% said they were "very confident" Harris was ready to be president, and 9.4% said they were "somewhat confident." Another 4.8% said they were...

For two decades Chinese tech firms have flocked to the U.S. stock market, drawn by a friendly regulatory environment and a vast pool of capital eager to invest in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies. Now, the juggernaut behind hundreds of companies worth $2 trillion appears stopped in its tracks. Beijing’s July 10 announcement that almost all businesses trying to go public in another country will require approval from a newly empowered cybersecurity regulator amounts to a death knell for Chinese initial public offerings in the U.S... “It’s unlikely there will be any U.S.-listed Chinese companies in five to 10...