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Joe Biden has reportedly begged the U.S. Central Bank to curb inflation that has been spiraling out of control under his watch. According to reports on Monday, Biden asked Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to do “whatever it takes” to control inflation. According to reports, Biden officials have been worried that skyrocketing consumer prices would further erode his waning popular support. U.S. inflation rose 5.4 percent year-on-year this month, which was way above the Federal Reserve’s two percent target. However, Biden and his officials have refused to admit that inflation poses a problem. “We’ve seen some prices increases. Some folks...

Last week, the president of the United States delivered a bizarre address in support of the so-called “For the People Act,” which presumes to take away the discretion of state legislatures over elections in their states. President Joe Biden described as “vicious” the recent voting laws passed in Georgia and Texas, saying they were meant to “intimidate poll workers.” The president condemned the proposed laws of these two states as “21st-century Jim Crow.” Biden hearkened back to the violent days of the student riots of the ’60s when he reused their battle cry: “The whole world is watching.” Then, Biden...

President Joe Biden rejected the U.S. intelligence community's assessments on Monday when he explained why he won't introduce sanctions against China in response to its Microsoft Exchange hack. Biden did so with a statement evoking memories of former President Donald Trump's.... contesting of U.S. intelligence assessments on Russian interference in the 2016 election. "My understanding," the president said, "is that the Chinese government, not unlike the Russian government, is not doing this [Microsoft Exchange hacking] themselves, but are protecting those who are doing it and maybe even accommodating them in being able to do it." This is factually incorrect. There...

Avi Zinger, CEO of Ben & Jerry’s Israel, on Monday commented on the global Ben & Jerry’s corporation’s decision to boycott Judea and Samaria, telling Channel 12 News he has no intention of stopping the sales of the ice cream in Judea and Samaria. "It is inconceivable that the company decides to cause harm for political reasons, and mix ice cream and politics," said Zinger. Zinger said he had been under heavy pressure from Ben & Jerry's global corporation. "I heard about the decision more or less together with everyone," he said, "but I have been under pressure for about...

“Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee” (Proverbs 20:22).

Summary We report the first local transmission of the Delta SARS-CoV-2 variant in mainland China. All 167 infections could be traced back to the first index case. The investigation on daily sequential PCR testing of the quarantined subjects indicated the viral load of the first positive test of Delta infections was ~1000 times higher than that of the 19A/19B strains infections back in the initial epidemic wave of 2020, suggesting the potential faster viral replication rate... ....On May 21, 2021 the first local infection of the Delta variant in mainland China was identified... ...Our investigation on the quarantined subjects suggested...

A pair of Fox News hosts on Monday urged viewers of the network to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, dismissing conspiracy theories about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. “Well, here’s the thing. And one of the CDC officials said yesterday, look, the pandemic right now is really just with people who have not been vaccinated. Ninety-nine percent of the people who died have not been vaccinated. What they are trying to do is make sure that all of the people who have not been vaccinated get vaccinated," Steve Doocy said Monday on "Fox & Friends." “Unfortunately, and this...

“In two weeks, we can end this pandemic in the United States of America,” said an upbeat Governor Gavin Newsom at a news conference on Monday. That California is “roaring back” has become Newsom’s mantra as he announces programs funded by the state’s record budget surplus. Ironically, nowhere was that assertion more true on Monday than in the state’s skyrocketing Covid-19 numbers. The state has stopped announcing Covid numbers on the weekends, instead issuing one big number on Monday. Today, that three-day total was 14,097, which breaks down to an average of 4,667 new cases per day. The last time...

As many companies begin to reopen offices and bring employees back in, many are requiring that employees be fully vaccinated. But can companies actually require that of their employees from a legal standpoint? And what legal pitfalls do employers need to be aware of while navigating this tumultuous time? Worth sat down with Domenique Camacho Moran, partner in the labor and employment practice of New York-based law firm Farrell Fritz, to discuss if employers can legally require their employees to get vaccinated, if employers can legally penalize an employee for not doing so and the biggest workplace health issue that...

Twitter suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, on Monday for violating its policy against posting “misleading information” related to the coronavirus pandemic. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to The Post that Greene’s personal account would be in “read-only mode” for 12 hours. According to the social media giant’s COVID-19 vaccine misinformation policy unveiled in March, 12-hour suspensions are doled out for second and third violations. A fourth violation results in a week’s suspension, while a fifth strike would lead to a ban. Greene’s suspension was first reported by the New York Times. Twitter also attached notices to two of...

‘I think if I had it to do again, I would have brought in the military immediately,’ he said.

Isabelle Thorpe and Kate Shortman want to end the stigma against muscular women. Two U.K. Olympians are hoping to spread the message that there is no correct definition of a “feminine body.” Artistic swimmers Kate Shortman, 19, and Isabelle Thorpe, 20, did a lingerie photoshoot for Bluebella’s #BeStrongBeBeautiful campaign to embrace their muscular bodies and help promote women in sports. For the underwater photoshoot, the duo showed off their muscles as they held a Union Jack. “It’s utterly unfair that society’s expectations for boys are to have this perfect image of health by going to the gym, lifting weights, and...

So, tomorrow at 9:00am EDT, the Blue Origin New Sheppard is planned to launch into the West Texas skies, carrying its first human passengers to the edge of space. The question is: will the world's richest man, Jeff Besos, pull off this stunt as fellow billionaire Sir Richard Branson did a few days ago? He's supposed to go higher than Branson did, not to mention that he'll be accompanied by both the world's oldest (82) and youngest (18) people to go into space.

Click here to read the full articleGeor­gia Speak­er of the House David Ral­ston is call­ing for a foren­sic audit after the “explo­sive” rev­e­la­tions com­ing out of the bat­tle­ground state.In a let­ter sent to Ful­ton Elec­tions Direc­tor Richard Bar­ron, Ral­ston specif­i­cal­ly called for the Geor­gia Bureau of Inves­ti­ga­tion to inves­ti­gate the pos­si­bil­i­ty of fraud in the 2020 election.Ral­ston cit­ed the “mount­ing evi­dence” in Ful­ton Coun­ty as the rea­son for the investigation.“Recent­ly, media reports have sur­faced which call into ques­tion the way in which Ful­ton Coun­ty con­duct­ed, count­ed, and audit­ed the Novem­ber 2020 Pres­i­den­tial Elec­tion. These reports have been accom­pa­nied by video...

A Chinese citizen who has appealed for injury compensation for her father for a decade discovered the regime had spent over $300,000 to stop her petition, but refused to pay her father a work injury subsidy of less than $15,000.Furthermore, a document issued by the Hongling street government on Feb. 2, 2020, claimed that they had paid the father almost $30,000 for his treatment, but the petitioner’s family never received it.Liu Yi, the petitioner’s young sister and legal representative, told the Chinese-language Epoch Times on July 18 that she got the chance to review the petitioner’s legal dossier at the...

A section of Jerusalem’s city wall built some 2,700 years ago and mostly destroyed by the Babylonian army in 586 BCE was uncovered by archaeologists in the City of David National Park...The massive structure – some 5 m. wide – was built on the steep eastern slope leading to the city, just a few dozen meters away from the Temple Mount.Probably the steepness of the area preserved the structure from destruction during the Babylonian conquest – a vivid account of which is offered in the Bible – since the invading army likely accessed the city from an easier path...For the...

Canada will allow Americans who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter the country next month, officials said on July 19.The Public Health Agency of Canada said that U.S. citizens and permanent residents living in the United States who have received the vaccine at least 14 days before trying to cross the border can enter on Aug. 9, according to a statement from the government of Canada.They will have to have a full set of shots accepted by the Canadian government. That includes vaccines made by Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson.“Entry to Canada will continue to be prohibited...

A Texas House representative announced Monday he’s introducing a bill for a forensic audit of the most populous counties’ election results.According to the text of House Bill 241, introduced by Republican state Rep. Steve Toth, forensic reviews of counties with more than 415,000 population should be carried out before Nov. 1, 2021, and they should be completed before Feb. 1, 2022.“Not later than March 1, 2022,” the bill’s text states, “the independent third party conducting the audit under this section shall submit a report to the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and each member of the...

Silver sourced from the northern Mediterranean, as far away as the Iberian Peninsula, was used as a trade token throughout the region during the Late Bronze and Iron Age periods, with the supply slowing only occasionally.This, according to a team of French, Israeli and Australian scientists and numismatists who found geochemical evidence that allowed them to reconstruct the eastern Mediterranean silver trade over a period including the traditional dates of the Trojan War, the founding of Rome and the destruction of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem....the researchers explained that they used high-precision isotopic analysis to identify the ore sources of minute...

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden hosted Jordan's King Abdullah II, Queen Rania and their son Prince Hussein at the White House Monday. Biden praised King Abdullah II of Jordan as a stalwart ally in a 'tough neighborhood' as the two leaders huddled in the Oval Office, a meeting that came at a pivotal moment ... Dr. Jill Biden hosted Queen Rania for tea in the Yellow Oval Room of the White House's residence. ... Meanwhile, Biden, who has put much of his foreign policy focus on China and Russia in the early going, faces some difficult issues...